[SatinDoll]

Kill ‘em all.

[Talisker]

The solution is to promise this if any of these attacks succeed:

And then, if violated, DO IT.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Our weapons in Egypt will make the entire ME unsafe for US forces.

[piytar]

The solution is helicopter gun ships with night vision sighting. Shooting ducks in a barrel.

The USN probably has other solutions, but as long as they are unknown, they are harder to counter. Remember, loose lips sink ships. Literally.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

How about an A-10 or this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1URyNpiy4xA

[hinckley buzzard]

All this talk about 20mms and CIWS and such is ridiculous. All it would take is a few sets of twin .50 cal machine guns with abundant ammo supplies to take out a bunch of speedboats. I bet the navy has this issue in their vest pocket. .

[Calvin Locke]

I thought the USN had installed 57mm Bofors to enhance/fill in the gap between the anti-missile/anti-ship armaments?

[Mears]

I agree. They should shoot anything that is moving towards them.

[smokingfrog]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU4N-7QhXso

[PapaBear3625]

These boats, which just need a couple of high powered outboard motors, can move very fast. Because they are made out of fiberglass and do not protrude far above the waterline, they are hard to see, hard to catch on radar, and hard to shoot at because they expose very little surface.

At night, the motors on these boats will stand out like flares on overhead thermal imaging. A swarm of Predator-B's, each armed with up to 14 Hellfire missiles, would take them out quickly.

We also have a bunch of Mark V Special Operations Craft (SOC), a fast attack boat that can do 50 knots and carries 4 gun mounts (two on each side) which can be fitted with 7.62 mini guns or 40mm (youtube video

[headstamp 2]

Time to go back to the 50 cal. Quad mounts.

[oldsalt]

I can recall being on board Enterprise on Yankee Station in '66 and watching the sunrise ...and looking at all junks and small boats crowded all around us. We were fairly close inshore,the North Vietnamese coast was a smudge on the horizon.

Those junks were supposedly fishing,but were really there to sound off when we launched a strike. Our defense against them wasn't there until they welded some .50 cal mounts on the catwalks all around the flight deck. The only high-speed contacts I remember were one early AM blips that sent us to GQ. Six high speed surface contacts were eliminated by diverting an A-6 Intruder from an en route night strike inland to the area of the contacts...which disappeared after a dump of maybe 22 bombs on their position.

Then point is you make do with what you've got or improvise.

[Nervous Tick]

>> One wonders why, despite the depth of concern and the years the Navy has had to deal with the threat, very little (if anything) has been done to build proper countermeasures.

Let me just take a wild stab at this one: Because we promote to leadership positions admirals whose main ambition is to see that our submarines are “manned” entirely by lesbian “sailors”?

[lonestar67]

Can they outrun lasers?

http://m.engadget.com/default/article.do?artUrl=http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/10/us-navys-solid-state-laser-sets-boat-ablaze-video/&category=classic&postPage=1