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They thought it was a cargo ship,
Big, slow, heavy, and easy money,
Two skiffs packed with armed Somali pirates tore across the black water at full throttle, engines screaming as they sliced through the Gulf of Aden,
Ahead of them loomed a massive silhouette on the horizon, no running lights, no visible flag, just cold steel and silence,
To pirates, that usually means one thing, unescorted freight,

They were wrong,

In less than ninety seconds, that shadow revealed its true identity,
Not a merchant vessel, not a tanker, not a prize,
But a floating war fortress,
A full-blown, nuclear-powered United States Navy aircraft carrier,
The kind that launches combat aircraft before most people finish breakfast,
The kind that carries more firepower than entire nations,

The pirates had AKs and RPGs,
The carrier had five thousand sailors, SeaWiz cannons, radar-guided missile systems, layered defenses, and exactly zero patience for threats,
What happened next wasn’t a standoff,
It wasn’t even a fight,
It was a lesson,

A lesson that started with radar contacts and ended with pirates face-down, zip-tied, and staring at Navy boots on the deck of a rigid-hull inflatable boat,
Because this is what happens when you pick the wrong ship,
This is what happens when you try to test a US Navy aircraft carrier,
And this, was a very big mistake,

The radar saw them first,
Two fast-moving blips, low signature, no AIS signal, closing fast,
Inside the combat information center of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, the screens lit up,
The operator didn’t hesitate,
Contacts, two small craft, bearing zero eight five, closing,
In these waters, that meant only one thing, trouble,

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