[Mika]

Ahahahhaha!

I happened to come across one of the funniest links in recent days, 10 truly ridiculous crimes

Suicide bomber watching **** for the first time in a theater forgetting that he already set the timer is something, but the funniest thing is that two guys have actually tried to mug Chuck Norris with knives. That's right, THE Chuck Norris. The description of events after the arrival of the police force is rather hilarious...

[Rodo]

mugging Chuck Norris?

no you don't.

[S-99]

You don't **** with chuck.

[StarSlayer]

The bone head that tired to karate chop his way through a pride of lions takes the cake for me.

[deathfun]

The bulkhead dent was hammered out and repainted.

HAHA
Oh Somali Pirates...

As for Chuck Norris, even more hilarious.

[jr2]

The whole Somali pirate thing does show impressive restraint, considering someone might actually have been injured by the RPG attack... they are probably lucky they weren't just blown away.  I'm guessing a combo of 1) too much paperwork to bother doing that and 2) the training the US military does for appropriate level of force in response to a threat, considering it's almost like a 7-year old running up and kicking a martial arts student... not exactly a 'fair' fight... although, they did ask for it, and they could have done mortal harm to US forces, so I'd say they're still lucky, probably more #1 than #2, at least for the three on the skiff.

[StarSlayer]

The whole Somali pirate thing does show impressive restraint, considering someone might actually have been injured by the RPG attack... they are probably lucky they weren't just blown away.  I'm guessing a combo of 1) too much paperwork to bother doing that and 2) the training the US military does for appropriate level of force in response to a threat, considering it's almost like a 7-year old running up and kicking a martial arts student... not exactly a 'fair' fight... although, they did ask for it, and they could have done mortal harm to US forces, so I'd say they're still lucky, probably more #1 than #2, at least for the three on the skiff.

They probably gave up before the Navy could figure out a solution that was cost effective for getting rid of them.

[jr2]

Yeah, those silkworms are kinda expensive, and the torpedoes ain't cheap, either.. 7,500 20-mil rouns a min gets expensive too.  50-cal shouldn't have been too expensive, though...

[NGTM-1R]

The whole Somali pirate thing does show impressive restraint

The thing that impresses me is that the Sea Whiz not only successfully engaged the RPGs with little or no warning, but took down three out of four of them. They're not the sort of targets it was designed for.

[Aardwolf]

How did an RPG just "dent" it?

[redsniper]

Dude. Warships are made out of tough stuff. RPGs are kind of old-fashioned and aren't very effective against modern tank (and apparently ship) armor. They're used more against trucks and "soft" vehicles like that. To blow holes in ships now, we use stuff like torpedoes and anti-ship missiles. Check out the sizes of those versus the size of an RPG.

[NGTM-1R]

How did an RPG just "dent" it?

It could have failed to go off. The RPG-7 is an old design, and despite its wide production and the fact multiple companies around the world are still making new ones, those that see use in the third world could be as much as fifty years old and are rarely stored in ideal conditions. (The first operational models were delivered in 1961.) Equally, while the RPG-7 is designed to get wet, it's not designed to deal with salt water, and anyone who's spent time aboard a ship can tell you salt water is shockingly corrosive stuff.

It may have been an HE/Frag round (the reusable nature of the RPG-7 and its use as a squad support weapon means it has HE/Frag and Thermobaric rounds available), in which case the quality of steel used in warship construction would have giggled at it. The USN still makes ships out of light-armor quality steels.

And lastly, the Sea Whiz could have clipped it or its shots passed so close to the rocket in flight as to cause it to tumble so it struck the ship with the side of the projectile or even the back; if a HEAT round does not go off facing the object it is intended to penetrate, it is useless.

[Nuke]

also its possible the projectile was a dud, its not like people in 3rd world countries have access to first rate ammo. its even possible they were sold training round with no warhead at all.

[StarSlayer]

The whole Somali pirate thing does show impressive restraint

The thing that impresses me is that the Sea Whiz not only successfully engaged the RPGs with little or no warning, but took down three out of four of them. They're not the sort of targets it was designed for.

[Nuke]

The whole Somali pirate thing does show impressive restraint

The thing that impresses me is that the Sea Whiz not only successfully engaged the RPGs with little or no warning, but took down three out of four of them. They're not the sort of targets it was designed for.

point defense is what it does!

[NGTM-1R]

If this forum had plusrep, you'd get all of mine for the next few weeks.

[Klaustrophobia]

i don't know if it's my sleep-deprived delerium or it really WAS that funny, but i just cried laughing for a good 3 minutes. 

[Wanderer]

RPGs are not a thing to laugh at... Pretty much every currently used APC/IFV can be taken out even with old RPG-7 while more modern versions are not named 'MBT LAW' without a fairly valid reason... Just because untrained religious fanatics using 50 year old RPGs can not take out modern tank with them does not mean RPGs would have been outdated.

As for armor, it would have required something close to old battleship armor to actually stop even old RPG-7 from penetrating had it been using the HEAT warhead (which penetrates, depending from model, around 25 to 75 cm of steel). Though getting a single neatly drilled hole into the ships side well above waterline would have hardly changed anything.

[Nuke]

if anything im wanking to the capabilities of our point defense systems
also gatling guns <3 best thing since nukes

[Dragon]

What were they thinking? Attacking a military frigate, indeed one of the dumbest things a pirate could do. That's not 16th century, and even then, only pirate lords like Henry Morgan could ever think of attacking military vessels. Seems like they watched too much "Pirates of the Caribbean".  Phalanx CIWS wasn't designed for such small targets, but it did a formidable job anyway. And while RPG-7 is capable of damaging modern tanks and APCs, these are mostly "mission kills" (thread damage, in most cases) or crew injuries. Only PG-7VR (tandem warhead) is capable of dealing damage to modern armor, and these warheads are less than common. They most likely used OG-7V warheads (frags) or PG-7V (outdated HEAT variant). I guess that it was the latter, considering that there was a small dent (I doubt frag would get through a bulkhead).