Your job is to convert a bulk carrier into a mothership and command centre for launching and coordinating piracy operations. What do you design? You must be able to launch zodiacs, defend from air and seaborne attacks and possibly project force on land. You must do it as efficiently and realistically as possible. You must prioritise concealment and plausible deniability, which means no autocannons on deck or anything of the sort.Personally, I would go with, GPMGs, manpads and portable anti tank weapons like AT-3 Saggers to be deployed for point defence and offensive roles, whenever needed. Drones for reconnaissance and suicide attacks. Anything else would be too expensive to acquire or impractical. Crew is made up by former professionals and Liberians in menial maintenance roles.
>>65557902>You must prioritise concealment and plausible deniability, which means no autocannons on deck or anything of the sort.Why not? Just cover it up with a shipping container and make it so that the side can swing open on hinges.
>>65557902>You must prioritise concealment and plausible deniabilityLiterally not possible in current day.Even completely civilian ships that engage in some mischevious deeds immediately get found out despite not doing anything conventionally "military"
>>65557902>as survivable and fast as a 7 yo in a mosqueno chance
The moment you start floating around with all that firepower you just become fodder for a USN carrier strike group or a submarine.
>>65557902>piracy operationsI think a big part of the question here is who are you targeting with these pirate ops?Western shipping = no shot, you're begging for a dronejob. You might grab one or two around the horn of Africa, but they're going to uparm quick and hire security.Chinese fishing = pretty much ready to go as is, just stack with men and arms, drop a crane on deck. But why would you want to? Billionaire yachts = great initial success, but poor long term prospects. Only a matter of time before you nab one that has a government on a leash. Pretty much a "one and done" operation, then you've got to change your name and spend the rest of your life hiding in southeast Asia or something.So what's the target OP?
I start by adding short range defenses by welding old zsu-23's to each corner of the ship.
>>65557902you get a smaller ship designed to service places without proper dock facilities. those have their own cranes so you can just store the boats ect. down in the hull.if you are trying to not be made out as the mother base there's no point in having point defense, like bitch nigger what are you going to do if a frigate rolls up to you and sends over a boarding party? oh great you've just shot at their small boat and the helicopter they had up. that's going to magically prevent them turning you into scrap with their cannon
>>65558701South American and SEA countries with no way of defending themselves. Or I’m gonna contract myself to third world countries to obliterate and replace pirates. Chinese and Indian ships. Western shipping every once and a while >>65560334Too loud>>65560343I would never shoot a frigate or find myself in the position of doing so. It would only be patrol boats or other lesser pirates. Cmon use your head >>65558378what firepower? It’s hidden. We’re talking about mobile hand held weapons that come out only when needed. A speed boat approaches. By the time it’s close enough an AT-3 obliterates it. The launcher is then packed back up into its case and taken to the armoury.>>65558356how does that happen
>>65560436You think you're pulling off a 150 IQ move but its a 105 IQ move that even some basic 110 IQ office worker monitoring arms sales would pick up on.
>>65560438The office workers monitoring the open air markets of Kabul, Karachi and Mogadishu.
>>65560442With spy satellites. Welcome to the year 2026, they can read your license plate from space now.
>>65560436>how does that happenLack of competence making this look like a standard loading operation. These hunks of metal show up very well SAR sats, someone would notice them docking at some unusual place.
>>65560438That's really what most discussion on this godforsaken board is these days. Most people don't even read /k/ related material anymore. At best posters just read the headlines they get through their algorithm, either that or they are so invested in identity politics of some form or another they might as well be employed at the Hindustan times.
>>65560436>I'm not a retard, I wouldn't shoot at a frigate>also how do I turn a bulk carrier into my super duper secret pirate cove, I can't figure it out
