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2010-05-17 Africa Horn

Video of Russian Navy capturing and sinking Pirate Mothership!

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Posted by 3dc 2010-05-17 00:13|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 You'd think that with all the fancy AKMs the pirates could afford a better pistol than a Tokarev.

Posted by badanov 2010-05-17 01:01|| 2010-05-17 01:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Well done Ivan. Well done.

Posted by abu do you love 2010-05-17 01:04|| 2010-05-17 01:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Guy Bleeding All Over the Place don't look like no Somali.

Posted by tu3031 2010-05-17 01:55|| 2010-05-17 01:55|| Front Page Top

#4 From the description at You Tube:

Yesterday on Tuesday (27 April) at 1812 Moscow time the large antisubmarine ship Admiral Panteleyev captured a pirate ship off of Somalia according to the Ministry of Defense.

The capture took place at 1812 Moscow time and took place about 15 miles from shore. Inspection of the vessel revealed seven Kalashnikovs, pistols, aluminum boarding ladders, navigation equipment, including satellite navigation, fuel cans and ammunition.

Twenty nine were detained.
OK, we get the hint

Posted by tipper 2010-05-17 03:10|| 2010-05-17 03:10|| Front Page Top

#5 From the blog: Somehow, I just don't think the Russians are sympathetic to the Somali pirates, even if the pirates are just "poor misunderstood fishermen fallen on hard times."

Not with all those AK47s being used against them they wouldn't be. You'd think the pirates would have the sense to show a little appreciation.

Notice all the flashlights those guys had? Maybe good for getting around the ship at night if the mother ship didn't have a source of light, but you'd think they'd be better for rooting around the belly of a cargo ship looking for sailors hiding there.

Lots of those guys looked like Pakistanis or arabs or something. Definitely not type I've seen in other videos involving Somalis. I'd bet dollars against dog turds that Al Qaeda and/or the Taliban are in on this somehow. It may be where they are getting some of the money for the upgraded gear their fighters are sporting.

Because of this, we need to cut it off. Every dollar they get is another dollar they can use against us.

Also, it looks like that fire ought to have been quite visible from shore. They waited until night to sink that ship. Probably on purpose because the sight of the fire on the water would have more impact than the smoke during the day.

Posted by gorb 2010-05-17 09:29|| 2010-05-17 09:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Pathetic that we need to depend on the Russians to do what needs to be done to secure freedom of the seas. And somehow I suspect that if the Russians are the ones doing it, freedom of the seas will not be the ultimate result.

Interesting that they shot the Arab and let him writhe on deck pour l'encouragement des autres. I wonder if the Russians involved will face courts martial upon return.

Just a pathetic demonstration of why we're doomed in this fight if we don't start fighting.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-05-17 09:58|| 2010-05-17 09:58|| Front Page Top

#7 I wonder if the Russians involved will face courts martial upon return.

More likely, medals and vodka for meritorious service.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-05-17 10:12|| 2010-05-17 10:12|| Front Page Top

#8 We should take a cue.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-05-17 10:13|| 2010-05-17 10:13|| Front Page Top

#9 Pathetic that we need to depend on the Russians to do what needs to be done to secure freedom of the seas

Well, the Russian don't have a Russian Civil Liberties Union (RCLU)- or that type of crap- as yet. That makes it easier for them, I guess

Posted by Willy 2010-05-17 10:38|| 2010-05-17 10:38|| Front Page Top

#10 хорошая работа

Posted by OldSpook 2010-05-17 11:23|| 2010-05-17 11:23|| Front Page Top

#11 You'd think that with all the fancy AKMs the pirates could afford a better pistol than a Tokarev.

Yah, you'd think they could afford a CZ-52....

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-05-17 11:27|| 2010-05-17 11:27|| Front Page Top

#12 Russia has a no-BS attitude toward terrorism and pirates, a huge budget surplus, and a disciplined strategy for extending its power and influence in the world.

WTF happened to make us so clueless and the Russian government so focused and rational?

2012 cannot come fast enough.

Posted by lex 2010-05-17 12:31|| 2010-05-17 12:31|| Front Page Top

#13 seems i remember calls here on the burg last year to 'sink the mother-ships' and others of 'kill the pirates'. seems there was someone then telling us that we were simpletons and that such a policy could not work.

Would the commentator that blasted the ideas then then step forward now and explain to us why this Russian policy is so wrongheaded and doomed to failure?

Posted by abu do you love 2010-05-17 12:57|| 2010-05-17 12:57|| Front Page Top

#14 This will quickly turn into a conversation about following "The Rules". Sadly, the US civilian leadership doesn't understand anymore about when rules need to be broken.

War is a good example. And piracy falls in the same category in my book.

Probably way too much bureaucracy in the US for so long that people have gotten into pinhead mode. They are so used to some organ in the bureaucracy being able to take care of things that they don't know how to think beyond that any more. No good examples exist in the bureaucrats' living memories.

People who step outside of bounds get fired. So bureaucrats just say "fuc& it" and let their frustration be felt in subversive ways. When people are doing that, it shows bad leadership.

Posted by gorb 2010-05-17 13:17|| 2010-05-17 13:17|| Front Page Top

#15 you're right gorb especially since we are the only ones who seem too follow "the rules"

Posted by chris 2010-05-17 13:25|| 2010-05-17 13:25|| Front Page Top

#16 WTF happened to make us so clueless and the Russian government so focused and rational?

Our survival instincts have been degraded by decades of drugs, TV, easy living on credit and communist propaganda.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-05-17 13:52|| 2010-05-17 13:52|| Front Page Top

#17 Russia's (non-red) star is rising. This is really beginning to feel like the late 1970s again.

Can anyone here play this game?

Posted by lex 2010-05-17 14:01|| 2010-05-17 14:01|| Front Page Top

#18 Where's our era's Reagan? It ain't Sarah or Mitt.

Posted by lex 2010-05-17 14:01|| 2010-05-17 14:01|| Front Page Top

#19 Chris Christie

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-05-17 14:38|| 2010-05-17 14:38|| Front Page Top

#20 See also STRATEGYPAGE > SOMALIA: THE MESSAGE FROM MOSCOW.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-05-17 19:39|| 2010-05-17 19:39|| Front Page Top

#21 Nice explosion. :-D

Wish it had been in the daytime, though.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-05-17 21:03|| 2010-05-17 21:03|| Front Page Top

#22 explain to us why this Russian policy is so wrongheaded and doomed to failure?

It's a temporary policy. Give the Russians a few years, and they'll be selling or donating weapons to them.

Again.

Posted by Pappy 2010-05-17 21:26|| 2010-05-17 21:26|| Front Page Top

#23 Pappy, that's actually making Russia some money. Sell them weapons a few years later blow them all up, then sell the weapons a a few year alter... lather rinse repeat.

Could that really be the secret?

Posted by OldSpook 2010-05-17 21:55|| 2010-05-17 21:55|| Front Page Top

#24 divide et impera

Posted by lex 2010-05-17 22:52|| 2010-05-17 22:52|| Front Page Top

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