maybe a quick fireworks show to take our minds off domestic issues

I'm sick of hearing these pirate stories on the news, what good is more warships being sent to the Gulf of Aden anyway?

Seriously I'm sick of heroic crewmembers having to defend themselves against these assholes!



I would have suspected the United States of doing something about this instead of having every major country (even as of two days ago Iran!) in the world sending their Navy far from home to patrol the waters off East Africa, why hasn't the US done anything yet, why not attack the pirates from their bases of operations, kill half of them and disband and destroy their order of hijacking ships and killing innocent sailors.

The ship I would recommend:



Any of the Wasp class amphibious assault ships (see above) would do the job, these things are the Swiss Army knives of warships, they have an air group of helicopters that are used to ferry Marines and equipment to the shore from the ships. These helicopters are supplemented by a squadron of up to eight AV-8B Harrier II V/STOL ground-attack aircraft.



So strafe the shore based pirate harbors with low flying Harriers, instead of using your standard helicopter drop in Special Forces using high flying V-22 Ospreys where and when needed, have your amphib ship parked off the coast for a week or two along with a hospital ship and eventually the wannabe pirates will witness the fast retaliation attacks and not want to be part of the style.

The problem will be solved in a matter of days and maybe the "fireworks" show put on will take our minds off of domestic issues.

Why you shouldn't mess with Somali pirates

Combined Task Force 150 (shown below) is a combined force of multinational navy ships assigned to the war on terror, the thought of naval frigates fighting terrorists doesn't sound right, but that's exactly what they do, if you count Somali pirates as terrorists!



Since 2005 Somali terrorism across Africa has started and as recently as this month its returning once again to large!

For instance take the beautiful French yacht MY Le Ponant, no passengers were onboard but there were 30 crew onboard, hijacked by pirates, the crew were later freed but not until the owner of the yacht allegedly paid a ransom.

This is stranger then fiction, they literally took over the ship held everybody hostage, waited until it got out of the hands of the United States, forced the owner to personally pay a ransom and then let the hostages go, damn, the French later tracked them to land and caught all six of them.









After several more similiar incidents involving cargo ships one incident on September 25th caught my attention, the Ukrainian owned cargo ship MV Faina was heading to Kenya to deliver some military goods (33 Soviet made T-72 tanks) when 50 pirates boarded them hijacking the ship and holding all of the crew hostages (the boarding left), a large naval task force of Russian and American ships along with aircraft had forced to stop them actually unloading the dangerous cargo, but its reported that some had escaped with only small arms off it!

Still though, that was pretty darn ballsy!

More recently (today actually) the Sirius Star a Saudi FUCKING SUPERTANKER was hijacked in the Gulf of Aden along way from the "Maritime Security Patrol Area" patrolled by international warships in the Gulf of Aden.

This raises an eyebrow of what exactly they can do with that amount of motivation!