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Unmanned Surface Vehicles – The Future of Robotic Pirate Hunters

By On October 18, 2011

Drone aircraft, officially called unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), are just starting to be used to spot, identify, scare pirates away, and prevent hostage situations. But what about the “latest” generation [...]

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Gliders For Use In Hyrdographic & Anti-Submarine Missions

By On February 25, 2011

For the last few weeks, in the Ionian Sea to the southeast of Sicily, three gliders participated for the first time in an anti-submarine warfare exercise. During operation Proud Manta [...]

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Question To The Coast Guard: Where Are The UAV’s?!

By On January 18, 2011

Just think of the opportunities if every Coast Guard boat station and cutter had it’s own fixed wing aircraft and could initiate search and rescue operations before rescue boat had [...]

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UAV technology to help British sailing team by predicting weather

By On December 8, 2010

The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) has been a popular topic of discussion here at gCaptain and has been associated with a variety uses ranging from aerial surveillance to [...]

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10 More Anti-Piracy Weapons For Use In Somalia

By On June 6, 2010

Click to read Part 1 of this Post: 10 Anti-Piracy Weapons For Use In Somalia   Last year gCaptain brought you Anti-Piracy Weapons – Top 10 For Future Use In [...]

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Top 10 Recent Failures Of The USCG – Part 1

By On March 31, 2010

After making my decision to pursue a life at sea and accept an invitation to study in Annapolis my father said, “The Navy practices while the Coast Guard gets the [...]

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10 Lessons Learned From Sea Shepherd

By On January 8, 2010

gCaptain mariners have been critical of Captain Paul Watson and his crew of non-professional mariners, stars of the reality TV show Whale Wars. Most of the comments posted to gCaptain’s [...]

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New UAV Architecture for Urban & Maritime Environments

By On November 13, 2009

We’ve talked about Unmanned Aerial Vehicals (UAV’s) here before on gCaptain particularly associated with piracy off the horn of Africa.  Here is a look at a new VTOL [Vertical Take-Off [...]

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Photos of the Week – Maersk Alabama and Lifeboat Photos

By On April 14, 2009

Here is a collection of photos taken from this past week’s Maersk Alabama piracy incident.  The images and descriptions are provided the U.S. Navy.  These are just a few of [...]

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Overflight, Overflight, Overflight – The Missing Component To Combatting Piracy

By On April 11, 2009

Since World War II air dominance has played a critical role in successful military operations, are anti-piracy ops any different?

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Bow Asir & Nipayia – Pirates Find Success In Shift Back To Somalia’s East Coast

By On March 27, 2009

Map Via Eaglespeak In a move back to the East Coast of Somalia the pirates have found success in their search for another prize the size of the Sirius Star. [...]

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