This one goes back about a year when an intrepid group of Somali Pirates attempted to hijack an US Warship armed only with their trusty Ak’s and RPGs.
Bad move.

The Guilty hear the verdict
Why are these guys the world’s second dumbest pirates?
A US Frigate looks like this –

Look Ma! No Cannons!
So – other than the large white numeric designation on the bow which is a dead giveaway that this is a warship and not the “Betty Boop” tramp steamer out of Kalamazoo, one might mistake this American Warship for a harmless merchant ship from miles away.
Some of these Pirate’s bretheren attacked a French Warship which looks like this on the right –

Things That go Boom! French Frigate Somme
For future reference, the little dome at the front with the “pipe” sticking out of it… Is a cannon.

The Tabar, An Indian Navy Frigate

Russian Missile Cruiser, Peter the Great
Out of the running (self-Darwin elimination) for World’s Dumbest Pirates are the Somali Pirates who attacked an Indian and a had a tango with a Russian warship…
It’s hard to take smithereens to trial.
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