Excellent, WW. Great, and I mean GREAT ammo prices (cept for the mini-gun, but what the Fox, I'm on vacation...). But one major thing lacking in that ad..... How much extra to get a head or shoulder mount of a Somali pirate corpse?
Dang....can't find nuthin' about it with a web search either. Awe, Shiite..........
Those sounded like larger shots than 5.56, but I couldn't tell from the video. I'd definitely want something larger, but more importantly they looked like they need more shooting practice.....and fewer warning shots. I'd get a couple long range scoped rifles and shoot way earlier too, but maybe there are rules for that. I second the shotgun for when they get really close; they make some with high capacity magazines too.
For those criticizing the shooting, think of this, they are shooting from a ship moving along the surface as well as rising and falling with the waves at a boat that is moving in a different direction while bouncing up and down also. Missing is easy. ;)
I imagine it is difficult to shoot from a moving ship at a moving boat. I agree that a shotgun would be nice up close. A Mossberg 930 SPX is what I deer hunt with. Holds 8 shells but you can ghost load 9 if you know how. Semi auto and shoots every time.
That crap went on for way too long. I couldn't believe it as the world's navies pussy-footed along as all those freighters were highjacked before they finally grew some balls and ended it - but not before millions were payed in ransoms.
Nva you need a new hero. This guy doesnt know how to even shoot a gun. All he remembers is the spray and pray he learned in tbe hood. The safest place was in the boat as the gun recoils out of control. You can hear the rounds richocheting off the rail in front of him and when the boat gets next to his he shoots his own boat again. Whatever they pay him its too much.
I think one of the problems with having armed people on the ship is there are ports that don't allow armed personnel on ships that come in? Not sure but I read that somewhere.
I think you're right Shut. I remember reading that also several years ago when this crap started up.
What someone with some cash should do is started an armed escort service with A-10 Warthogs that would fly with ships as they went through the pirate zone. After the first few pirates get vaporized they could probably fly with unloaded rotary cannon as NO ONE would dare even leaving shore.
How's a gun even shoot like that without melting? Amazing.
Pete, if you listen to the audio on the video, the captain ordered warning shots. That's why they missed so much. The unloaded on them without hitting them and the idiots panicked and ran into the ship.
Turn that loose on Somali pirates. Thomas Jefferson would smile.
And...you know.....that little fat North Korean dictator cannot imagine all the ways we have to kill him! And with Trump, it is apparently the General's choice! Weapon du jour?
A-10 Warthog. The gun with a plane built around it! Truly.
In the initial testing of the plane and gun, the exhaust gasses from the gun would stall out the jet engines on the plane. They had to build a structure on the nose of the plane to disperse the gasses away from the plane so they could continue testing while they made changes to the design to solve the problem.
Because it is a low and slow aircraft, the pilot sits in a "bathtub" to protect him from ground fire. Can't remember to level of protection, but it will stop a very sizable round.
The recoil from that gun produces more "back thrust" than the engines can produce "forward thrust". Therefore, if it could keep firing, the gun could slow the plane down to the point it would fall from the sky even with the engines on max.
The rate of fire is such that it could put a round in every square foot of a football field in one pass.