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(25 Jun 2009) SHOTLIST
On board USS Arleigh Burke in the Indian Ocean, about 100 nautical miles (115.16 miles; 185.2 kilometres) from the Seychelles - 25 June 2009
1. Rubber launch in the water
2. Sailors loading practise torpedo in launcher
3. Practise torpedo fired
4. Torpedo in the water
5. Commander Brian Moum, Captain of the Arleigh Burke, looking through binoculars
6. Five-inch gun firing
7. Close up of shell casings on the deck
8. US sailors firing a .50 calibre machine gun
9. Close of gun barrel
9. Bullets striking the water
10. Sailors with ammunition belts, tilt up
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Commander Brian Moum, Captain of the USS Arleigh Burke
"And most of what you saw today was essentially a qualification shoot for various watch centres on board so that if I have to put them on an armed watch, using a .50 calibre machine gun for example, that they've had the experience of loading the gun, clearing the gun, firing the gun and just putting rounds down range so they know what it feels like."
12. Kenyan sailor firing a 7.62 machine gun, zoom in to barrel
13. Kenyan navy sailors on the deck
14. Wide of ship, rounds striking the sea
STORYLINE
US and Kenyan sailors were undergoing weapons drills on Thursday on board the American guided missile destroyer USS Arleigh Burke.
The ship was in the Indian Ocean after leaving Mombasa, in Kenya, and was about 100 nautical miles (115.16 miles; 185.2 kilometres) from the Seychelles, its next port of call.
The Arleigh Burke has been taking part in a training mission for the African Partnership Station (APS), an international initiative involving the US Navy, the US Coast Guard and European naval forces aimed at improving maritime safety and security.
Training alongside the US crew were a number of Kenyan naval officers.
The sailors fired the ship's five-inch gun, a variety of machine guns and used practise torpedoes.
Commander Brian Moum, Captain of the Arleigh Burke, said it was essentially a qualification shoot "so that if I have to put them on an armed watch, using a .50 calibre machine gun for example, that they've had the experience of loading the gun, clearing the gun, firing the gun and just putting rounds down range so they know what it feels like."
APS was set up in response to requests by African nations for military-to-military or civilian-military maritime training.
Somalia, which neighbours Kenya, has long been a lawless, war-torn country and the waters off its coast are now the world's worst piracy hotspot.
There have been dozens of ship hijackings by Somali pirates, disrupting shipping in the busy Gulf of Aden.
NATO now has five warships on anti-piracy patrol in the region and similar operations are being carried out by the European Union and nations including the United States, China, Russia and India.

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