Does Crime Pay? "Somali Jack" Sparrow says "Yes!"

[Doubt]

E-2C has surface search mode. Handy. Most naval helicopters have standard radar, beyond that I won't comment.

DR

A recent edition of Air & Space Smithsonian had an article about a new version of the E-2 that has improved surface search capability.

 

[Darth Rotor]

Ding, ding and ding. You win a cookie.

Cookies are outlawed without beer to wash them down, in my house.

 

[JoeyDonuts]

One of my old CIWS pals told me about an upgrade to the system that allows the engagement of surface targets. Nothing like 20mm tungsten rounds coming at you at 4000 rds/min to wreck your day. I also think they've begun fielding the IROS-3 system. Which is basically a sensor package/C2 module to schwack fast moving surface boats...the business end of which is a 7.62 minigun.

Boom-shaka-laka...Shredded pirate.

 

[Toke]

The problem is that as long as foreign fishers operate in somali water the somalis have to find a way to support themselfes.
They started with "coastguards" to keep foreign fishers away, and have now evolved to piracy.
A permanent solution will involve a stable country where you can make a living at a honest job. Those are not too common around the world.

Until then it will probably be rather messy at sea.

 

[Darth Rotor]

The problem is that as long as foreign fishers operate in somali water the somalis have to find a way to support themselfes.
They started with "coastguards" to keep foreign fishers away, and have now evolved to piracy.

Are you referring gto a 12 mile limit, strictly speaking Somali Waters, or a more nebulous 200 mile economic zone?

DR

 

[JoeyDonuts]

Are you referring gto a 12 mile limit, strictly speaking Somali Waters, or a more nebulous 200 mile economic zone?

DR

EEZ's are great and all, but I don't think mariners or fishers pay that much attention to them. And does the 12nm border represent a line parallel to your coast, or does it reflect the bodies of water you think you're entitled to? Ask ol' Col. Qaddafi that one. He thinks he owns the entire Gulf of Sidra. Also, the Omanis and Iranians are famous for having territorial pissings over VHF channel 16 about whether or not U.S. naval ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz are violating Iranian waterspace.

 

[gumboot]

Are you referring gto a 12 mile limit, strictly speaking Somali Waters, or a more nebulous 200 mile economic zone?

DR

Wasn't that tanker grabbed 400nm out to sea?

 

[JoeyDonuts]

Wasn't that tanker grabbed 400nm out to sea?

And that particular fact leads me to think they have to be using at least some kind of baseline Furuno or similar COMNAV radar. Of course, with any luck the folks at No Such Agency have already fingerprinted it.

 

[Darth Rotor]

EEZ's are great and all, but I don't think mariners or fishers pay that much attention to them. And does the 12nm border represent a line parallel to your coast, or does it reflect the bodies of water you think you're entitled to? Ask ol' Col. Qaddafi that one. He thinks he owns the entire Gulf of Sidra.

I was in the Coral Sea battle group for some fun and games with Qadaffy Duck and his funny little Line of Death. '86 was my second deployment to the Med.

Go to this pic: http://www.usscoralsea.net/images/cv431986bg2.jpg

The ship directly off the Coral Sea's bow happened to have a much younger and crazier (if possible) salted, sith cynic on board. Ah, the halcyon days of my youth. It was one of the first major deployments of the F/A-18A, wherein it was discovered that the effing vector logic grid often broke down on the account of gas. Alpha Whiskey was pulling his hair out on a daily basis. Alpha Whiskey was our CO. (I don't think we use that nomenclature anymore.) Deck cycle time of F-18 and F-14 was 15-25 minutes different, and that made all the difference.

DR

 

[Darth Rotor]

Wasn't that tanker grabbed 400nm out to sea?

Since that is not a fisher ship, huh?

DR

 

[Kestrel]

And that particular fact leads me to think they have to be using at least some kind of baseline Furuno or similar COMNAV radar. Of course, with any luck the folks at No Such Agency have already fingerprinted it.

The pirates didn't have to detect the tanker from shore. They could have simply loitered out at sea in a mother ship with a standard commercial radar system and waited for a target to pass.

 

[JoeyDonuts]

Darth, the lingo hasn't changed that much. AW for the most part is still the AAWC, unless specified differently by task group planning.

Would I be correct in assuming you were an OS? Perhaps one with an NEC of 0318?

I would have liked to have been on a cruiser. EW's had it much better on those cans then on a 'Burke. Of course the way CIC is laid out on a DDG, you can drop ass back in the EW module, and the airflow will take it all the way around the horseshoe, smoking out TIC, RSC, MSS, AIC, ASUWC, GUNS, SUWC, the Tomahawkers, and then finally the TAO. It was a thing of beauty every time. Like a wave of disgusted reactions all the way around the space. Yep. Some things I do miss.

 

[gumboot]

Since that is not a fisher ship, huh?

DR

Nevermind, I read the original post in this particular thread of conversation wrong.

 

[JoeyDonuts]

Bumpin' the thread.

Just noticed our pals the pirates decided to release a ship without the ransom...I believe it was the Yemeni one with the Muslim crew.

PR stunt perhaps? Placating to the Islamic governments?

 

[Darth Rotor]

Darth, the lingo hasn't changed that much. AW for the most part is still the AAWC, unless specified differently by task group planning.

Would I be correct in assuming you were an OS? Perhaps one with an NEC of 0318?

I was a 1310. The Rotor in my handle has to do with moving airfoils. See also the first line in my sig, then Launch LAMPS. Didn't get to deploy on any Burke class, but I was in the CIC of the John Paul Jones and got all warm and fuzzy inside.

DR

 

[JoeyDonuts]

A-ha. I speak LAMPS. We had a C2W exercise that was M4 (WAY out of date) status the whole time I was there. It's the one where the ALQ-142 sends data to the SLQ-32 piggybacked on the HAWKLINK. The problem was, our goons down in the radio shack could NEVER get us interfaced with it. We tried it with multiple different helos from multiple different ships a multitude of different times and not ONCE did it sync up for us. We managed to get the "red" voice circuit up but that's about it. No data whatsoever. That's really too bad. I always wanted to be an ESMO.

So did you ever get to play ASTAC? That is a critical part of Awfully Slow Warfare, ya know.

 

[PirateGuy]

So is my pirateship tattoo ill-timed?

 

[JoeyDonuts]

I wouldn't say that, unless you live in a part of the country where pirate symbology has been co-opted by white supremacist groups.

 

[PirateGuy]

Not that i've noticed. Then again I don't associate with white supremacist so I have no way to know. Also it is already on so...

It looks great though.

 

[gumboot]

A-ha. I speak LAMPS. We had a C2W exercise that was M4 (WAY out of date) status the whole time I was there. It's the one where the ALQ-142 sends data to the SLQ-32 piggybacked on the HAWKLINK. The problem was, our goons down in the radio shack could NEVER get us interfaced with it. We tried it with multiple different helos from multiple different ships a multitude of different times and not ONCE did it sync up for us. We managed to get the "red" voice circuit up but that's about it. No data whatsoever. That's really too bad. I always wanted to be an ESMO.

So did you ever get to play ASTAC? That is a critical part of Awfully Slow Warfare, ya know.

When I was a GCYH during my POF I had certain aversion to CINA-events and would divert to my SUP at every chance. Had a CINA-3 once that I diverted with the tried and true DWH tactic. Ah, good times. Was almost a shame to leave the GC and transfer to WIO. That was all before I went FREECON.

When I was a Garden Center Yard Hand during my Period Of Failure I had certain aversion to Customer In Need of Assistance events and would divert to my Supervisor at every chance. Had Three Customers In Need of Assistance once that I diverted with the tried and true Don't Work Here tactic. Ah, good times. Was almost a shame to leave the Garden Center and transfer to Work In an Office. That was all before I became a Freelance Contractor.