Navy Seal Snipers == Awesome

[Chris]

I was talking to my wife yesterday morning. She had seen those pirate headlines and wanted to know more so I explained about the Somali lack of government, the lawlessness, the piracy during the recent years, and then what happened that resulted in the hostage situation that was presently on the news. She wondered how they might rescue the captain and I said they probably wanted to snipe the pirates all at once, but firing from one boat, at another boat, on the high seas with wave action, has got to be near impossible.

I'm glad apparently I underestimated the skill of Navy seal snipers. The pirates made the idiot move of having all three stand up at the same time, and three snipers took them out with simultaneous headshots.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090413/..._af/piracy_239

[crashdive123]

See what happens with training and lots, and lots, and lots, and lots of rounds down range.

[Rick]

I am still amazed. Bainbridge bobbing in ocean. Life raft bobbing in ocean. Three idiots hanging out of the life raft. Three shots. Three less idiots.

I don't care how many rounds you put down range you just can not train for that. To me, it's mind boggling that any of them hit. The calculations had to be beyond impossible.

[oly]

Had a guy at work lipping off about it was only 25yds, and I asked him if you and your target was rocking in a boat could you hit it? That ended his conversation.

[crashdive123]

There has been a lot of speculation on how far the shot reall was. The small boat was tethered to the destroyer, so I doubt it was a close as 25 yards. Whatever distance it was, shooting a moving, bobbing target from a moving and bobbing platform = pretty darn good.

[Rick]

I can just see me getting THAT order.

"Uh, you want me to do what?"

[Ken]

I can just see me getting THAT order.

"Uh, you want me to do what?"

Let's not forget - the skipper who gave the order and the men who carried it out must have had a very, very, high level of confidence that the order would be executed with perfection. That confidence .... that impresses me just as much as those three shots did.

[snakeman]

From I heard it was 100 yards away. That is just amazing. No one can put down an American soldier.

[LowKey]

I'm just glad some action was taken and the situation didn't drag for months of pandering to pirate demands.
Mighty fine shooting that.

[Rick]

3 more vessels hijacked over night. Can you say Cruise Missile? I knew you could.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/piracy

Navy team parachutes into Haliburton. Seriously! How do you parachute onto a ship? Listen carefully.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa...s/#cnnSTCVideo

[crashdive123]

Small charge place on the hull from the remote tether that the submarine in the area has, then radio the pirates. When they doubt your word, surface next to them and then slip away quietly.

[Chris]

I don't know how the hijackings keep happening. These are huge ships, the pirates don't have big ships, they come up along side and scale the wall, should be easy to turn away if you're vigilant and armed, and you wouldn't need many armed men.

[doren]

Maybe the sailors are waiting for a group of all female hijackers?

[crashdive123]

I don't know how the hijackings keep happening. These are huge ships, the pirates don't have big ships, they come up along side and scale the wall, should be easy to turn away if you're vigilant and armed, and you wouldn't need many armed men.

From what I've read, most are following the UN directed rules of not having civilian merchants armed. They have not yet grasped the concept that an armed society is a polite society.

[Rick]

One would think that tossing some gasoline overboard...oh, I don't know, on them as they try to climb up the side, might give them pause to rethink their plan.

"Good show, Reginald. I do believe the scoundrels are retreating."

"These Somalis. Honestly, you'd think they would know to drop and roll."

"Indeed."

[Chris]

One would think that tossing some gasoline overboard...oh, I don't know, on them as they try to climb up the side, might give them pause to rethink their plan.

"Good show, Reginald. I do believe the scoundrels are retreating."

"These Somalis. Honestly, you'd think they would know to drop and roll."

"Indeed."

Or... it isn't as if there is you know, trees in the ocean. On most of these big freighters a two man crew of snipers at the highest point of the ship could probably cover security in 12/hr shifts. Give them M107's and they'll sink the pirate boats before they even get close.

Actually, you wouldn't even need 2 guys probably. Just a camera system monitored from the bridge that scans for boats from all directions, if you see guys coming you page your sniper, he wakes up or reports for duty, climbs up to his perch, shoots them.

[Rick]

I saw on the news tonight that's exactly what they are doing. The merchant marines' were training with what looked like M1-As, 45s, and shotguns.

[crashdive123]

Looks like there was another attempt on a US flagged ship today. http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/us_wo...fficials.html?

[erunkiswldrnssurvival]

I cant understand why anybody would take thier feet off of a perfectly good dirt anyway. i was watching a show the other day on sunken ships on the great lakes. them boats crack right in half and swim straight to the bottom. and if you tag them with a few well placed shell of ammo.....hhmmm

[Chris]

What angers me more is that a lot of these boats are transporting food aid for the people of east Africa. If this is the welcome we get perhaps we should stop sending aid.