Reply #30: The best solution would be temporary armed security onboard in high risk areas

[madville]

You have a base ships for the armed security on either side of a high risk area. The commercial ship picks up the security detail at sea on one side of the area, passes through and drops them off on the other side. THe armed security never has to enter a foreign port, they just ride along through the high risk area. Arm and train them with .50 caliber sniper rifles, should be no problem discouraging pirates in small boats since they have the high ground and a large somewhat stable platform to fire from (more stable than pirates speed boats anyway).

Hell they could start off firing at the engines like the Coast Guard does to drug go-fast boats in the Caribbean and they are firing .50 caliber sniper rifles from helicopters.