Posted on 01/20/2014 6:19:45 PM PST by artichokegrower
So?? Sink it anyway.
Twenty hours later a security team from the Russian destroyer Marshal Shaposhnikov retook the tanker, killing one of the pirates in the process. The remaining ten pirates were then cast adrift, some 300 miles off the Somali coast, in an inflatable boat with food and water but no navigation equipment. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, they never reached land and likely died at sea.
You kidding? The Japan MSDF destroyer actually located the hijacked dhow first, if it were a Russian destroyer may be everyone was sent to the bottom of the ocean.
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