This gentle way of handling the enemy stopping his speedboats, stalling his tanks has surprising advantages.
Enter speedboats, run by Florida smuggling rings, which are far harder for the coastguards to catch.
They believe that, given the demands of a globalised, Internet-speed economy, container ships might soon be whizzing like speedboats.
Now that they are making so much money, these 21st Century pirates can afford increasingly sophisticated weapons and speedboats.
Not Iran, whose secret weapon is a swarm of speedboats armed with RPGs.
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The speedboats maneuvered very close to the convoy, with at least one coming within 200 yards of one of the ships.
Speedboats frequently whiz past us carrying resort tourists on whale shark-spotting trips.
Aoki used to fly around in a helium balloon shaped like a Benihana chef, and raced Benihana speedboats with bright red logos.
Some demonstrators tried to block the canal by untying speedboats and setting them adrift while others sought to interrupt car ferry traffic.
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Some demonstrators tried to block the Suez Canal by untying speedboats and setting them adrift while others sought to interrupt car ferry traffic.
Military police recovered five of the speedboats and brought them back to shore, but two were still drifting, one witness told Reuters news agency.
Iran, were it to ratify LOST, would be no less inclined to wage such lawfare to accomplish what five Revolutionary Guard Corps speedboats could not.
As I wandered, the still air was broken by the sound of roaring engines, while at the harbour, a dozen speedboats powered their way out to sea.
The island is also along a busy drug-smuggling route, especially popular with speedboats and submarines laden with cocaine, stopping off on their way from Colombia to Central America.
The activists travelled by inflatable speedboats from a nearby Greenpeace vessel and used ropes and ladders to climb up mooring lines, the group said in a statement.
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The narcos use jets and helicopters, speedboats, and even submarines.
But many lose patience and risk their savings and lives by paying "snakeheads" to smuggle them into Hong Kong, hidden in the back of trucks or on speedboats or junks.
The High-Powered Microwave, as it is called, is reported by Aviation Week to be powerful enough to disable all of the motors in a swarm of up to 30 speedboats.
The incident at issue occurred on January 6, 2008, when, according to accounts by the U.S. Navy, five armed Iranian speedboats manned by the infamous Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps aggressively approached three American warships in the Strait.
In the ongoing debate over whether to subject American maritime interests to the whims of the "international community, " a subset of LOST proponents have taken to pointing to the January 2008 near-altercation between U.S. warships and Iranian speedboats in the Strait of Hormuz as evidence of the necessity of U.S. ratification.
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