Pirates?

[masalai]

Correcting Frosty's estimates - - - as a 40mm round is more than 2 pounds, - - 500 tonnes per minute per 40mm weapon..... count again on the load to deliver for a 15 minute 4 weapon firefight? - - - - I make it 30,000 metric tonnes or 30,000,000 kg....

 

[rasorinc]

The 40mm grenade rounds I saw were no where as big or heavy as a regular40mm navy round/ the 30mm nose cannon rounds in the multi barrel guns in airplanes look like fat 50 caliber. Maybe there has been a change in what a 30 or 40MM actually is in terms of size and the 40 refers to killing power??????? They are 1/3 or 1/4 the size of regular 40s stan Also, they fired individual barrels or 3 or 6 or 12 at once. also did not shoot their whole wad at once so to speak. Say 8 round per barrel one barrel would sink a Iranian fast boat. A short burst of 30mm in the nose gun of a Warthog will blow up a tank with5-6" plate armor. I remember picking up a cage of 40mm old time rounds in 1961 I think it was 8 rounds and had to weigh 35 lbs
FOUND THIS new 400mm grenade shells. http://world.guns.ru/grenade/gl06-e.htm

 

[safewalrus]

Funny this should pop up this morning . Kula Lumpur has issued a Piracy warning for the south malaca straits and the Eastern side of peninsular malaysia after a coal barge travelling from Singapore to Thailand was robbed of basic stuff and mobile telephones.

The down turn in the economy is blamed.

That's got to be a joke! the Malacca straits have ALWAYS had pirates - variied as to which side of the straits they came from but come they did!

 

[masalai]

I would like to meet the "pirates" Meanz posted in "CRUDE...." thread, - - U-Tube stuff - - - - - Must have been firing blanks most of them, so a complete set of Whooses, and all too easy to disarm and get friendly with

 

[safewalrus]

Simple process reintroduce letters of Marque - a few privateers should do the trick - you supply us with proof of dead pirates and we'll pay you a bounty!! Few heads would do!!

there again reintroduction of a few 'Q' ships would also be useful. Along comes a nice little coaster phut phut....along comes your pirate boats the coaster stops the pirates prepare to board down drops the side of the container on the coaster bang bang bloody bang pirate vessels just vanish! After a few didn't get home it would start to sink in (if you'll excuse the pun) oh well back to fishing again, whats left of us!!

 

[Fanie]

Piracy of some boats was on our news as well. They said pirates will be prosecuted on land as well now, which gave me the idea that pirates were prosecuted at sea only, but when they reached land and fled with their lute it was over.

 

[safewalrus]

The courts that prosecuted pirates were always land based! Back in the 'good old days' they had a gentile way of punishing pirates in London - they were chained to posts below the high water mark - the tide marched slowly in up the legs, body and finally the neck and face of the pirate, end of! did it put the other pirates off? probably not but hey it certainly put the ones involved off and it was seen to work!! Probably not a nice way to go but in they days neither were a lot of other gentile punisments!

 

[masalai]

Is this one disease where the American propensity to shoot first and ask questions later may be put to good effect and reduce their stockpile of nuclear weaponry with one atmospheric of subsurface explosion at every town that supports/acts as a base for piracy..... be warned and leave these towns .....?

 

[Fanie]

Pirate ships may be very good for target practice. Give the chaps at sea something to do other than deck scrubbing and polishing brass. How about declaring it open for all

 

[masalai]

That could be interesting with even the pirates shooting each other up?

 

[marshmat]

High-intensity sound in the 20 kHz range seems to fend them off rather nicely; it seems a few craft are starting to fit such devices. 130-140 dB at a hair under 20 kHz is apparently quite disorienting and makes it almost impossible to do anything other than clamp one's hands over one's ears in futile panic. The components can be found on eBay for a couple hundred bucks....

 

[rasorinc]

In the older days wasn't it legal to kill on sight??????????????? Maybe even a reward.........

 

[aztek]

That could be interesting with even the pirates shooting each other up?

That is gonna bring peace isn't it!
i think the best way is to use something painful but non-lethal like sound or rubber bullets.

High-intensity sound in the 20 kHz range seems to fend them off rather nicely; it seems a few craft are starting to fit such devices. 130-140 dB at a hair under 20 kHz is apparently quite disorienting and makes it almost impossible to do anything other than clamp one's hands over one's ears in futile panic. The components can be found on eBay for a couple hundred bucks....

Isn't that going to affect the crew?

 

[safewalrus]

Extermination is the best way of bringing peace - no pirates no problem? Simple really

 

[masalai]

Don't worry with everyone fighting, arguing, stealing, pirating etc when we have sooooo overpopulated this little planet that we have eaten all the food in the oceans, on the land and drunk all the drinkable water and burned all the oil and other energy it won't really matter..... The good will be in "spiritual form" and the evil I presume will find that hot full of energy place called "Hell" in some circles??????? (Is that the hot sandy place, elsewhere mentioned as undesirable, where the people wear teatowels on their heads?)