Donnerstag, 29. Dezember 2011

Water Cannons! Lasers! Sonic Weapons! Fighting Somali Pirates With Science

BY NEAL UNGERLEIDER
Oh, and also walls of stinky, skunky-smelling water! Take a look inside the crazy (and lucrative) world of anti-Somali pirate technology.

Piracy is a serious problem in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. While NATO, Russian, Iranian, and Chinese ships all escort merchant vessels through the Gulf of Aden, foreign militaries can't be everywhere at once. Ships traveling through dangerous waters often need to create their own improvised anti-pirate defenses... and

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