Britney Spears' music used by British navy to scare off Somali pirates

In this modern age of warfare why are we sending the navy to fend off pirates. The air force would be better employed to perform 2 or 3 flights over suspect areas of sea per day.

Would make good practice for the pilots & the pirates would quickly find another career if they knew there was only a missile waiting for them & not a rescue craft, a shower, dry clothes & a hot meal!

Oh' & that pic of Brittany at the start of this thread should be made into a huge drop down banner & slung from the side of merchant vessels!

 

Billy Connolly is not a man I'd care to quote.

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089466551.html?from=storylhs

What a germ.

 

The Miley Cyrus twerking photo would better serve.

 

So the key here is to put in a 'mole cleric' who has the capabilities to become their favorite and then preaches ‘‘ piracy is bad, pirates go to hell . . ! ! ! ’’ :idea:

Cheers,
Angel

 

"Round them up and kill em'. NO...WAIT, first stick a pork sausage up their ***, THEN kill them." G. Gordon Liddy, when asked what to do with terrorists after 9-11.

 

Air force planes need bases to operate from. Navy planes can operate off a carrier - but carriers are expensive to operate, need a lot of protection and a lot of materiel support, and are usually busy elsewhere.

Not to mention that conducting air reconnaissance over thousands of square miles of open sea looking for small craft isn't nearly as simple or cut-and-dried as you make it sound.

 

I'm not that familiar with the guy. But he may well have been referring to the non-stop, lurid media coverage of the situation, rather than to Bigley's plight itself. Or not....

Regardless, I don't think a couple of tasteless jokes or comments should necessarily define or invalidate a person's entire life and career. I've been known to make tasteless jokes and stupid comments myself on occasion, but fortunately no one has ever recorded them for the news media....

 

might be more cost effective to use real time satellite surveillance, and than launch long range drones to intercept the pirates before they get close to a cargo ship.

The problem is that there are only so many of those kind of satellites available, and they are slow and costly to reposition (sometimes burning limited and valuable fuel to reposition) to keep and eye on a given place on the earth. so they are only used on high priority targets.

considering the value of the ships and cargo they carry, it might be cost effective for some shipping companies to get together and finance a dedicated private satellite to do the watching from the sky. the command center can notify any allied navy ships in the area of possible pirate activity and even feed them their imagery.

Another idea might be for the ships themselves launch remotely piloted aircraft with telemetry to send images from over the horizon and get a call out a lot earlier than they could without the surveillance drones.

 

Very kind of you, Troy, to give him the benefit of the doubt, unfortunately a prompt, fulsome apology would have been acceptable, but wasn't forthcoming. It reminds me that whenever the impulse to say or do something nasty overtakes us, we first count to sixty, by then the better angels of our nature should have kicked in.

 

A pirate is not a pirate until he boards your ship.

How will your satellite or drone identify a pirate ? Do you think that pirates fly skull and crossbones flags during the day and neon PIRATE signs at night.

Every experiance I have had with small craft approaching too close has been poor fisherman looking for fuel or water.

the cowboy american approach of shoot first, ask questions later , will kill innocent seaman and futher degrade the image of americas abroad

 

Probably. You don't go to one of Connolly's shows if you're looking for political corectness anyway.

 

Billy Connolly's gaffes are generally unfunny. By contrast those of Prince Phillip, the Duke of Edinburgh, are quite hilarious, here's a small sample.........

After striking up a conversation with a Scottish driving instructor, he famously remarked: ‘How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?’

In 2002, the 91-year-old famed for his non-PC comments asked a group of Australian aborigines: ‘Do you still throw spears at each other?’

If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.

While touring a factory near Edinburgh he said a fuse box was so crude it "looked as though it had been put in by an Indian".

"The problem with London is the tourists. They cause the congestion. If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion."

 

What a prince!

 

You're painting Americans with a pretty broad brush there, Michael. We don't generally leave a trail of dead natives everywhere we go. I served in the US Navy and the ships I was stationed on didn't blow a single boat out of the water, despite numerous opportunities.

 

You guys are slipping. You have a reputation to maintain.