How about.

How about a drone airplane that could be piloted around ships in pirate-infested waters that could identify in-bound pirate "ships" and, ahem, non-fatally "slime" them with some kind of biodegradable, organic sludge that gave the sensation of burning?

The drones could be flown and landed out of area airport/strips where they could refuel while being piloted here in the states much like the Predators (and the like) that are flown out of Groom Lake.

Oh man.. talk about my dream job.

"Target identified, deploy capsaicin sludge."
"Deploying sludge."
ppppppppppppppppphhhhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwww *SPLAT*
"Target struck. Natives restless."
"Affirmative. Initiate victory song."

Come on, who's with me? Flight control could be just down the road in Wilson, hope home of cheap bandwidth. Data to and from the planes, well that's another story but I'm sure we can work something out.

Yes....