What tactics can a prospective Tanker captain use when the U.S. of United States is threatening to board and steal the ship and all the oil?Do they at least have like .50 cals they can mount really quick and send up suppressing fire against the helicopters or the rappelling troops? Is the bridge sealable so they can't get in without explosives? Do they have like a small arms weapons locker with shotguns and other close quarter weapons? What if they like do zig zags back and forth to avoid the troops having a good surface to repel into and then they pull like crazy Ivans?
>>64743716Commercial vessels are unarmed, their only protection is diplomatic norms and international law
>die for company profitsnoget fucked
>>64743721What the fuck man? What are they supposed to fucking do against pirates!? What about the 2nd Amendment!?
>>64743716be correctly registered and flagged
>>64743753Pirates take prisoners, they make good ransom. I reiterate>dying for the company
>>64743763But they even stole a freighter that Russia confirmed was correctly flagged!
>>64743768who cares. fuck russia.
>>64743768>re-flagging at sea>>>>>"correct"
>>64743774You lick snizz!
>>64743753Call an emergency pirate distress call and hide in the panic room till someone comes to help.Sometimes they load a group of 1-8 armed mercenaries who will usually shoot boarders with small arms. Depends on the contract, the risk of the area and the cargo value I guess.
>>64743768Can't reflag or rename a ship while at sea or in a port of call, dumbass.>but whyIt's an act of piracy.>but whyIt was common pirate tactic to conceal their true identity, and there was no legitimate reason to do it. So it entered the maritime code (currently the UNCLOS) as an act of piracy.
>>64743810Well, smuggling too, but your point stands that it's something you have to go out of your way to do, and no reason to do it unless you're up to shady shit.
>>64743716Literally nothing. If they attempt to resist a boarding attempt with force then they all they're doing is risking being sunken outright by the US Navy.
What if they threaten to dump the oil?
>>64743850Smuggling charges are much less punishing then whatever they'd charge you with for creating an intentional environmental disaster.
>>64743852Exxon Valdez captain was only fined $50,000, and sentenced to 1,000 hours of community service. Zero jail time.
>>64743884Exxon had a competent legal team and was merely incompetent instead of malicious.
>>64743766>>64743888Do the companies that run freight pay for K&R?
>>64744040Their insurance does.
>>64743753The #1 defense against pirates are navies ridding the seas of pirates.
>>647437161. Send a bait tanker filled with explosives.2. Let the US ship get close and board3. Blow up ship4. Blame the US for blowing up ship5. Insurance companies will raise shipping insurance worldwide6. Price of goods spiral up7. US gets the blame. Americans complain of rising food and fuel prices8. Regime change in the US.9. Profit.
>>64744144Where are they going to get that many explosives from, can they afford it?
>>64744077Then there is objectively zero reason to fight back. If your overlords are paying insurance against your potential kidnapping, then you don't want to lose it by doing something stupid and martial.
>>64744160You should look up that big Ammonium Nitrate explosion in Beirut and all the dumb bullshit leading up to it. It was basically on a ship like these (shitty russian tramp freighter) that had to go to Beriut for emergency repairs and got its cargo impounded because they couldn't pay port fees.
>>64743716The most effective tactic is to surrender quickly and comply with their demands. Americans are not going to shoot you or your crew unless you go out of your way to give them a reason to.There is no other response you can muster that doesn't result, best case scenario, with you getting grilled by the authorities after your capture or worst case killed outright.
>>64743716Surrender.
>>64744257You do understand the difference between a stated and known cargo load of fertilizer and smuggling a large amount of HE onto an oil tanker, right?
>>64744144The actual result of this is having all of the tankers associated with you banned from all ports because no one wants a beirut
>>64743716Well the first winning move is not to be part of an illegal "shadow fleet" trying to evade sanctions doing things like and changing the flag and vessel name on the go. If you've failed that then cut the engines, surrender, and do what they tell you. That's it. That's the only good move once the helicopter is on it's way. Anything else is giving them an excuse to escalate. Even if your vessel is armed with a smuggled aboard .50 of some sort you'd have to be an absolute retard to dare to even point it at US forces. Smuggling weapons aboard and daring to aim them at US forces is just going to get you killed.Now get off 4chan until you turn 18.
>>64744144Good job, you have given the US an excuse to field test quicksink.
>>64744448>unless you go out of your way to give them a reason to.
>>64743716Identify as a trans muslim
>>64743768lmao you can't reflag at sea willy nilly like that silly billy
>>64743766>letting yourself be taken prisoner by niggers without a fight woman mindset
>>64744801>die for the company, wagie
Load your boat full of explosive and wait for the muttmericans to ram you
>>64743810However the USA is not a signatory of UNCLOS. I also watch Sal Mircagliano.
>>64744836Correct. The US can do whatever it wants because it's the global hegemon. Since they're not a signatory of UNCLOS that means they seized a russian flagged vessel while the russian navy sat there and watched like a bunch of cucks. Russia won't do anything about it because russia is a bitch.
>>64744894>it's the global hegemonNot for long at this rate.
>>64743716there is no tacticall you can do is build a navy large enough to stop them and that's politics
>>64743716>What tactics can a prospective Tanker captain use when the U.S. of United States is threatening to board and steal the ship and all the oil? Calling the insurance company that a piracy incident is about to take place.
>>64744454>reasons can't be just perceived or manufactured
>>64745005If you're being boarded by the US, then your ship is uninsured in the first place
>>64744894shit, russia will have to just get another free tanker.russian shadow fleet before: ~600 tankersrussian shadow fleet after: ~600 tankers
>>64743716Buying container sized VLS cells, CIWS and radars: https://www.twz.com/sea/chinese-cargo-ship-packed-full-of-modular-missile-launchers-emerges
>>64745075that's clearly not a tanker but a container ship
>>64744967At this rate they're only becoming even more of a global hegemon as all their supposed rivals turn out to be paper tigers, cuckolds who like to watch, or both.
>>64745088>cuckolds who like to watchRussia is simply returning to it's natural place, on the edge of civilisation (europe) looking in and seething at wonders it can never share.
>>64743716>What tactics can a prospective Tanker captain use when the U.S. of United States is threatening to board and steal the ship and all the oil?Nice try, Ivan but you already stole and patented the answer from a /k/ anon >Upside down lawnmowers mounted all around it
>>64745043What, you think Russian shadow fleet tankers don't have insurance?
>>64745114yes, most don't bother with insurance anymore since you get sanctioned anyway
>>64745129Surely they are insured in Russia or Iran or whatever, no?
>>64745133no
>>64744144>Extremely fatalistic suicidal idea.>Entire plan hinges on the rest of the world being dumb enough to believe your lies.Sounds like just the kind of plan Russia would be dumb enough to try.
>>64743768>reflagged at sea is correctlol, this has been against rules and norms for literally hundreds of yearsliteral fucking centuries>russia confirmedah, there it is, into the trash it goesTOTAL ZIGGER DEATH btw
>>64743716>What tactics can a prospective Tanker captain use when the U.S. of United States is threatening to board and steal the ship and all the oil?>Do they at least have like .50 cals they can mount really quick and send up suppressing fire against the helicopters or the rappelling troops? How fuvcking dumb and third world are you OP? By the way finland just ceased a Russian sabotage ship You'll do fucking nothing or die.
>>64743716>steal the ship and all the oil?Criminal shipping associated with war criminals and tyrants like Russia or its financial backers belongs who the US or EU depending who takes it.If you don't like it then by all means fight. We dare you.Durr hurr sabotage cables, durr hurr uninsured leaky tankers, durr hurr launch drones from tankers durr hurr supply drones to kill europeans, durr hurr run subversion psyops on shitholes like /pol/ dur hurr groom errorists and riots and murders, durr hurr use mass immigration as hybrid warfareActions consequence. You don't like the response. Well here's a giant slab of tough shit combined with a big bowl of don't give a shit for your dessert,If you third world retards and kremlin vegtables don't step into line you'll get to see you fucking village starve to death and there will be no lovely packages of EU and US food aid like the ones that fed you as a child paid for by the very people you dedicated your life to shitting on.While you are at it. Get off the fucking internet, it's ours. Not yours and if you are an ehemy of the NATO and EU states and the USA you get NOTHING..
>>64743716Best send your best to do something then fuckwit.Let's see you fight, come on out you weaponized migrants and fight us like men"Chinese, Russian and Iranian vessels have sailed into a South African port ahead of week-long naval exercises that follow a surge in tensions over US military operations in Venezuela and the Atlantic.The South African National Defence Force in a statement said the planned exercises starting on Friday — dubbed Will for Peace 2026 — would involve “Brics Plus” nations. Beijing’s defence ministry said China and Russia would participate alongside South Africa.Iran’s largest naval vessel, the Makran, a converted merchant ship previously called the Persian Gulf, was also this week observed sailing into False Bay, close to the naval port of Simon’s Town in South Africa’s Western Cape province."Just remember what I said about starvinng your village and remember that the US and EU provide the world with the vast majority of it's food exports.https://www.ft.com/content/3ec1a7dc-f163-4b56-99d8-035ac7043cf0
>>64743768>he changed his license plates while fleeing a cop! what’s the big deal?!
>>64744801>die for Jewish oligarch oil interestsLmao how the worm has turned
>>64745211>ceasedseized you fucking retard
