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Would they not be sitting ducks for pirates?
by kardos 6y ago
Would they not be sitting ducks for pirates?
- stubish 6y agoKidnapping and ransom seems to be the most profitable part of piracy. Insurance costs would likely go down for unmanned vessels. You could spend money on arms and mercenaries and RPG launchers and machine guns and escorts and drone squadrons through danger zones, but it is cheaper to just pay insurance. If insurance stops working, the next cheapest would be to pay pirates protection money to keep other pirates in check. https://www.forbes.com/2010/04/15/pirates-somalia-shipping-insurance-business-logistics-piracy.html https://www.forbes.com/2010/04/15/pirates-somalia-shipping-i...
- kebman 6y agoOn the open ocean? No. That's very unlikely. Along contested shores? Yes. That's where you'd employ the coast guard or naval forces to protect the vessels. Perhaps you could even bring aboard an armed crew as needed, or employ various defences, beginning by making it harder to breach the containers, up to just about any fully automated defence system you can imagine.