[BIGLOOK]

450 nautical miles SE of Mombasa, Kenya is a stretch, Sandy. Puts the location off the islands near the Indian Ocean.

Any boarding by pirates using small craft would need transport to the area by a larger ship.

[SandRat]

Most assureadly a Mother-Ship.

Yet that is what the article says.

[Ax]

Arrrgh matey, time for these blighters to walk the plank.

One would think that there were enough fighters stationed at Camp Lemonier in Djibouti, both U.S. and French, that they could mount some kind of heliborne reaction to any piracy within range of their choppers. I'm sure that the 13DBLE there would love to use their bayonets against some of those pirates.