Nope you are correct. I can understand people wanting to up arm or have the allowance to up arm the OPV's but when we are talking about uparming basic patrol boats intended for nations lacking the resources to acquire and maintain such assets them selves then we are smoking the fun stuff that we shouldnt be. These 19 boats (21 actually now with East Timor acquiring 2) are for basic fisheries and SAR, The majority of the nations barely have any military or let alone police force to speak of.. Pushing on a larger gun onto the boats would merely add to there difficulties in maintaining them.
That aside some on here I get the appearance thinking that we can make use of these boats.. we cant. They are being 'gifted' to soveriegn nations who can choose to use them how they see fit, That does not mean they are required to do our bidding if we ask it, They are also spread out across a vast area of the world so the less then 2 dozen over that area would be all but useless to us.
Leave these boats with the .50 HMG, it is a good enough weapon for there requirements, And lets stop worrying about upgrading boats for 3rd world nations into combatants that they cant afford.
