Timeline for How to fight effectively on a space station
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| May 15 at 14:24 | comment | added | Nosajimiki | That is actually not very common. The vast majority of piracy done over the past few decades has been by small motor boats that board the ship by scaling the side, or even in some rare cases they land on it by helicopter youtube.com/watch?v=Cck_SycVb1w . If you have the resources to own a proper warship, you are not poor enough to need to engage in piracy. | |
| May 15 at 13:57 | comment | added | Negdo | @Nosajimiki They are attacked by pirates but very rarely by boarding. In the last few big cases the "pirates" (well, they were military) used warships to threaten the tanker into surrendering. Which could happen to space station. But boarding is rare. Tankers that go near dangerous shores are armed with anti-personel weapons. The only reason they don't also have anti-ship weapons is that those are illegal in ports/national waters. So huge space stations should be armed, especially if they have security force to protect it. They would protect it by using anti-ship weapons | |
| May 15 at 13:50 | comment | added | Nosajimiki | I mostly agree with this answer, but the boarding thing, not so much. Yes, an aircraft carrier is very unlikely to get boarded, as is a MILITARY space station, but aircraft carrier sized cargo ships are frequently attacked by pirates. If this is by in large a civilian space station which happens to have a police, militia, or private security force to protect it, then boarding becomes a much more reasonable expectation. | |
| May 15 at 11:05 | history | answered | Negdo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |