How do you catch a $50. rowboat filled with a few filthy cretins?
Well, if you're America, you spend several hundred millions on a new toy! (talk about using an elephant gun to kill a fly) Perhaps i'm being simplistic but, what is the problem with putting a few armed guards aboard these tankers with orders to kill anyone they see in a rowboat? A few weeks ago, four of our incredible Navy SEALS solved the problem with about $10. worth of ammo! With all the fancy gunships, jet fighters, satellites, laser beams, UAV's, missiles, and God only knows what else we have, do we really need this thing to kill a few lowlifes ?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,518974,00.html
7 comments:
The LCS was designed to fill a gap in the navy's littoral combat role.
for the liberals out there littoral means "in shallow water"
The fact that it can be easily adapted to fight pirates means that the designers did a good job.
(shallow draft, hight speed)
you miss the point when you say the Seals with 10 bucks worth of ammo did the recent job. Those seal were on the fantail of an Arliegh Burke class Destroyer - which costs 4 or 5 times what a LCS costs.
The only reason the destroyer could get close was that they were in deep water. The LCS can be used in very shallow water.
But I agree with Spidey that you could put a couple of armed guards on each vessel for a lot less money.
putting US troops on foreign flagged vessels causes lot of political problems, for instance lots of ships are registered in Liberia and other nations that are "friendly" to the pirates.
the only way we could do this is to put the troops under UN control....I don't even want to start listing the issues with that.
guns, always guns.. why can't I just talk to them???
Blue,
I didn't say US Troops, I said armed guards.
Blue stole my thunder.
What we really need is some of those old Brown Water Navy boats from the Mekong River. They were fast, well armed and heavily armored, given their overall weight.
But, we'll spend a few billion to recreate the wheel. As usual.
Thank you Lady-Bug. Neither one of us said US Troops. And that is the point Blue. It doesn't matter where those SEALS were. They could've been on a rubber raft or hanging out the side of a chopper and still did the job with ten bucks worth of ammo. It shouldn't take a multi-million dollar piece of equipment to zap a rowboat.
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