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33 more things Panzer will never buy.


The pirates have no way to offload those tanks. There's probably not a single crane in all of Somalia that can lift them. And if the Somalis get one, the Navy or Air Force will use a bomb to make sure it doesn't lift anything any more.

The munitions are a bigger concern. However that ship is in fact literally surrounded and I expect that any ship-to-shore attempts to be greeted by 5" naval shells. And if they try to move the ship a 5" shell through the steering would put an end to that too.

The complication here is that the tanks are an illegal arms shipment, labeled for Kenya but actually for Sudan. The Kenyans are definitely in on it but it's not certain whether the Russians, Georgians, or both, are in on it too. Apparently they don't want the US, British or French to board and put an end to it ... and talk to the crew and inspect the paperwork.
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