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2009-03-17 Africa Horn

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Posted by tu3031 2009-03-17 10:15|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Some enterprising navy needs to fit out a Q-ship with 40mm Bofors and a few .50 cals and send it into the shipping lanes.

Posted by Mike 2009-03-17 13:12|| 2009-03-17 13:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Sea Marshalls! Two sniper teams per each ship, one fore and one aft, armed with Barrett's and hundreds of rounds of bullet and a Mk-19 for close in, crowded boarding party control.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-03-17 13:17|| 2009-03-17 13:17|| Front Page Top

#3 It's not a bad idea. One just has to get the following to agree to it:

1. The country whose ship the flag is flying under,

2. The insurer,

3. Any nation whose territorial waters the ship will cross.

Or - drop the pretense (as in the case of China, N. Korea, etc,) that merchant ships are not extensions of their naval forces.

Posted by Pappy 2009-03-17 13:25|| 2009-03-17 13:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Q ships. Offer no quarter, take no prisoners.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-03-17 13:40|| 2009-03-17 13:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Drink!
Twice!!

Posted by tu3031 2009-03-17 13:41|| 2009-03-17 13:41|| Front Page Top

#6 D *** NG IT, MADONNA, this sounds like another old Dream/Vision of mine and her Video, but where, when ...

Oh, wait.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-03-17 19:53|| 2009-03-17 19:53|| Front Page Top

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