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A friend's brother pilots a freighters. They always have a couple of armed Gurkha's (Nepalese mercenaries) on board. So some companies are willing to pay for ar
by sstrudeau 17y ago
A friend's brother pilots a freighters. They always have a couple of armed Gurkha's (Nepalese mercenaries) on board. So some companies are willing to pay for armed security for their ships; but a few armed ships is clearly an insufficient deterrent to the entire enterprise of piracy.
- khafra 17y agoIt depends on who has a larger profit margin, the shipping companies or the pirates. If a random 5% of freighters are armed heavily enough to destroy or capture a pirate vessel, the pirates have to be making enough profit for a total loss in 1 of 20 raids to be worth it.