[spodefly]

Not a gun ship.

[downtownconservative]

I looked up USS Lewis and Clark on wikipedia. It’s a Ben Franklin Class atomic sub. Someone got the ship’s name wrong.

[STD]

This vessel has considerable firepower in the form of crew served automatic weapons mounted on the rails of the upper floors of the bridge superstructure. Both M-2 heavy machine guns and 40mm grenade launchers will ruin your day.

Either of these weapons can laydown enough suppressive fire to make these "pirates" abandon the attack and save their bullets for less hardened targets.

[dead]

Not a gun ship.

Then put some guns on it. Big ass guns.

[raybbr]

Even if it’s not a gun ship they should have run the bastards over.

[Kenny Bunk]

Hep me out here.

A US Navy vessel and it's not armed? No Phalanx? No quad 50s, no nuthin? No M-16s, no pistols? Is this one of those all-female ships?

WTF, over?

[nevergore]

Any ship could be a “gun” ship.....

All US Naval vessels operating in dangerous waters should have some mounted guns and crew that could operate them.....

[Jmouse007]

No it is not a gun ship but as a former US Navy man I can tell you they have weapons on board. On top of that THEY HAVE THE HIGH GROUND and could have blasted them to bits. Why they didn't turn around and blow them out of the water is beyond me. "Obamessiah the Weak" must have standing orders for us to tuck our tails and run away.

Disgusting

[Kozak]

How hard would it be to arm it with a few 50 Cal’s, and maybe a few Dragon missile launchers?

[Tammy8]

If not able to deal with pirates- needs escort that can. With the threat of terrorists and others that wish to do us harm we should not have a Navy ship out there without the means to defend itself.