Cargo ships are not equipped with weapon defense equipment. What should you do if you encounter pirates at sea? How should you deal with pirates with modern weapons? On February 1, 2011, a cargo ship used homemade firearms and harpoons to repel pirates armed with rocket launchers . What is the specific situation?
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On February 1, 2011, a Chinese cargo ship named "Jianingshan" sailed from the Indian Ocean to Durban, South Africa. The cargo ship was 1,200 nautical miles away from the coast of Somalia. The second officer on the ship discovered that it was not far away from the ship. Seven miles away, there was an unidentified ship wandering forward. The second mate, who was experienced in sailing, immediately understood that this was the arrival of pirates.
Then the second mate immediately reported the captain, the captain immediately sounded the alarm and told the crew to prepare to enter combat status. At the same time, the captain also immediately reported the situation to the head office and the Chinese naval escort taskforce.
However, at this time, the escort formation is 1,050 nautical miles away from this position and cannot reach it in a short time. Until the convoy arrives, the crew is on their own.
There are many veterans among the crew, so they have strong discipline and combat effectiveness. The crew immediately took up arms and prepared to deal with the pirates, buying time and waiting for reinforcements.
The pirates released two speedboats from the pirate mother ship and besieged the Jianingshan. The yacht was very fast and very flexible. In a short period of time, the pirates outflanked the cargo ship from the left and right sides, and attacked the cargo ship. Fierce fire was fired. When the pirate ship approached the cargo ship, the pirates threw an iron hook on the speedboat to the cargo ship and planned to board the ship.
Faced with the pirates' intensive bullet attack, the crew members crawled on the ship and found the opportunity to throw two incendiary bombs at the pirate boats approaching the cargo ship. The so-called incendiary bombs were actually just beer bottles and kerosene. The homemade bomb was not very powerful, but it still had some effect. The clothes of two pirates on the pirate boat were set on fire.
After the pirates extinguished the fire, they quickly circled to the stern of the ship and planned to attack from the stern. At this time, the crew ambushing at the stern attacked the pirates with homemade bombs. One crew member threw a harpoon at the pirates and hit one pirate in the arm.
The pirates felt that they had encountered a problem. After a long attack, they still could not board the ship. However, the pirates did not want to return in vain. The angry pirates found a rocket launcher and fired rockets at the cab of the cargo ship. The captain saw In this case, he immediately ordered the ship to turn around, and the rocket finally hit the second officer's room.
After a fierce battle, the pirates still couldn't board the ship. The pirates couldn't bear it anymore, so they retreated back to the mother ship, but still sent a small boat to follow the cargo ship.
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Although the pirates retreated, the crew still did not dare to relax at all. The crew gathered the flares and prepared to use them to attack the pirates. When the pirates attacked the cargo ship again, the crew used flares to attack the pirate boat following the stern. . Although the flares were not real firearms, they would still burn when they touched the clothes, and they could still act as a deterrent to pirates. .
In this way, the 26 crew members armed with homemade bombs, harpoons and flares fought to the death with the pirates who had rocket launchers and machine guns , and withstood two attacks by the pirates.
In the afternoon, the pirates launched a third attack. This time the pirates changed their tactics and adopted the strategy of diverting the tiger away from the mountain. First, they sent a speedboat to harass the crew and attract the crew's attention, and then another pirate ship circled to the stern of the ship. Get ready to board the ship.
This time the pirates' attack was effective. They destroyed the anti-piracy grid of the freighter, but when they were about to board the ship, they were still repelled by the crew using homemade Molotov cocktails. In the end, the attack ended in failure for the pirates.
The pirates had no choice but to retreat again and return to the pirate mother ship, but not long after, the pirates once again released a speedboat to follow the cargo ship Jianingshan.
This time, the crew members felt a sense of despair, because the homemade bombs had been exhausted, and if the pirates attacked again, they would be unable to stop them.
Perhaps the pirates’ desire for victory was defeated by the heroic and tenacious resistance of the Chinese crew, or perhaps the crew’s persistent fighting bought time for the cargo ship to stay away from the pirate mother ship. In the end, the confrontation ended with the pirates’ defeat at around 9 p.m. , the radar on the cargo ship Jianingshan no longer showed the pirate mother ship. The captain took out his telescope and found that the pirate mother ship had disappeared into the vast sea.
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In the end, the battle ended with the victory of the Chinese crew. In this battle, only two Chinese crew members suffered minor injuries. After simple treatment, there was no problem. In follow-up statistics, the pirates hit the Jianingshan cargo ship with approximately 400 bullets and three rockets.
Just as it is said in the TV series " Bright Sword ": When we meet on a narrow road, the brave wins. It was precisely because of the bravery and tenacity of the Chinese crew in the fierce battle with the pirates that the Jianingshan was spared from being plundered by pirates. When we encounter hardships, we must also have this spirit of perseverance that is not afraid of difficulties. When we feel that we are about to be unable to bear it, we might as well bite the bullet again. Maybe we are just a little bit away from success.
