Too bad they didn't kill all of them.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/03/18...alia/index.html
U.S. Navy, suspected pirates clash
Saturday, March 18, 2006; Posted: 2:40 p.m. EST (19:40 GMT)
(CNN) -- Two U.S. Navy ships skirmished with a group of suspected pirates off the coast of Somalia Saturday, killing one and wounding five, the Navy said.
No U.S. soldiers were injured.
At the time, the USS Cape St. George, a guided missile cruiser, and the USS Gonzalez, a guided missile destroyer, were conducting maritime security operations in the Indian Ocean, the Navy said.
It was during a "routine boarding" of the suspected pirates' vessel that the naval boarding team noticed the men were armed with what appeared to be rocket-propelled grenade launchers, said the Navy.
"The suspected pirates then opened fire on the Navy ships," a press release from the Navy stated. "The Cape St. George and Gonzalez returned fire with small arms in self-defense."
Photographs released by the U.S. Navy were of a small outboard motor speedboat with three men aboard and writing on the side. Another photo showed what appeared to be small bullet holes on the side of a U.S. naval hull, and in a separate photo, a small boat engulfed in flames, with a long plume of black smoke.
Pirate attacks and hijackings are common off the eastern African nation's coast and usually target U.N. World Food Program vessels carrying relief food for the millions of people affected by the drought.
Last week, Somali pirates kidnapped 50 Yemeni fishermen off a Yemeni island just east of Somalia, according to Yemen's state news agency Saba. (Full story)
On November 5, pirates fired rocket-propelled grenades at a 440-foot luxury cruise liner operated by Seabourn Cruise Line. No one was hurt, and the captain was able to get away before the pirates could board the ship.
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Sort of like spitting in the wind
Started by Guest_crankyoldguy_*, Mar 18 2006 04:52 PM
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Posted 18 March 2006 - 06:10 PM
I wonder what happened to the boarding party?
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Posted 18 March 2006 - 07:01 PM
I've seen some video where one of our Navy ships just riddled those pirate vessels with bullets.
They have a weapon on the ships that is supposed to shoot about a thousand rounds at an incoming projectile (missile) to keep it from hitting the ship. Kinda like the gun mounted on the A-10, but it's dressed up like R2D2 from Star Wars.
This video I saw though, I think they were just using good ol' machine guns. It was cool watching the bad guys jump out of the boat trying to avoid the hail of bullets. It gave me a warm fuzzy feeling to watch as the boat caught fire and sank.
They have a weapon on the ships that is supposed to shoot about a thousand rounds at an incoming projectile (missile) to keep it from hitting the ship. Kinda like the gun mounted on the A-10, but it's dressed up like R2D2 from Star Wars.
This video I saw though, I think they were just using good ol' machine guns. It was cool watching the bad guys jump out of the boat trying to avoid the hail of bullets. It gave me a warm fuzzy feeling to watch as the boat caught fire and sank.
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Posted 18 March 2006 - 09:22 PM
Now just how stupid do you have to be, to take on the U.S. NAVY with a couple of RPG's in a glorified trout-boat?
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Posted 19 March 2006 - 06:20 AM
I know I've used this quote before, but here goes:
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