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Allakhazam wrote:
We have some military folks here, so someone tell me why this won't work. Move an aircraft carrier to the area and have a couple F-16s always in the air. A distress call comes in and the jet flies quickly to the area and checks it out. If a ship is indeed attacking another ship it blows it out of the water. The pirates lose a ship and some fellow pirates. Lather, rinse, repeat. Seems pretty easy to me. I can understand that it takes a navy ship a while to get to a problem area, but jets seem a tad bit faster to me.
So why wouldn't his work? Other than cost that is.
So why wouldn't his work? Other than cost that is.
I suspect we have some sort of military laws (geneva conventions?) that prevent us from doing so...(at least anything that wouldnt be covert)