Jin Chun Tsai 68 - 15°32N 059°19E is assessed as being used by pirates for piracy operations. 0447UTC 04JAN11
Vega 5 - 11°36S 042°07E is assessed as being used by pirates for piracy operations. 1438UTC 01JAN11
York - 03°30N 054°44E course 270 speed 6.5kts as of 1140UTC 04JAN11 is assessed as being used by pirates for piracy operations. (red line on map indicates projected course)
Hannibal II - 10°29N 053°05E 1211UTC 03JAN11 is assessed as being used by pirates for piracy operations.
Shiuh Fu No.1 - 13°05S 056°33E 1045UTC 30DEC10 possibly heading back to the anchorage off Somalia. No current update
Now, if you were a "NATO/EU/CTF 151/Other Anti-Pirate" force admiral, where would you place a few ships to counter the pirates?
UPDATE: (includes the bolded questions above)
From the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence Piracy Analysis and Warning Weekly (Horn of Africa) report for week of 16 Dec 29 Dec 2010:
Seems there are enough naval vessels in the area to put a tail on every mothership.
ReplyDeletefirst the Navy said "oh the Indian Ocean is too big to find those little boats". Now what will the excuse be: oh our satellites can't track every big ship we know is a mother ship.
ReplyDeletethis is not about a lack of assets (although it has always been about ill-deployed assets and restrictive ROE) but more a lack of will to be dynamic and take on the pirates, their strongholds, and funding sources directly IMHO
Don't worry. Some vigilante with a surplus U-Boat will sort it out.
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