as in motorboats
a boat equipped with a motor
speedboats leaving wakes that cause damage to docked vessels and the shoreline
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In Ukraine, compact, seatless drones that resemble speedboats have been used to deliver large explosive payloads, significantly impacting Russia’s Black Sea Fleet.
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Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 24 Aug. 2025
Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 24 Aug. 2025
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“Speedboats.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/speedboats. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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