But the officers and men on board the boats are the creme de la creme. Like the torpedo boats that preceded them, missile speedboats are small swift craft of relatively low cost, fitted with weapons that can inflict enormous damage. During naval warfare, their objective is for "the small to eat the big."
飛彈快艇和以前的魚雷艇一樣，都是用較少的經費，建造快而小、且配備具有強大殺傷力的武器﹘ ﹘飛彈或魚雷，希望在海戰時「以小吃大」，重創敵方艇艦。