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Re: Somali Officials Suspicious Of Citizen's New Oil Tanker

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Originally Posted by solletica View Post
There is no torpedo that can travel faster than the top speed of one of these speedboats, and if it tried, it would run out of fuel really fast.
I don't know. 45 knots is pretty fucking fast, and at a range of 36,000 feet, I suspect that these boats from third-world nations wouldn't be much of a challenge to sink.

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I'd suspect that the harder part is trying to cover all of the ocean that's at risk for piracy.
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