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Navy experiment cut short after unmanned vessel flipped a support boat
S3 · 23 Jun 2025 · Maritime Applied Physics Corporation
Record
| Company | Maritime Applied Physics Corporation |
| Industry | Marine robotics |
| Type(s) | malfunction |
| Date | 23 Jun 2025 (day precision) |
| Time of day | 15:28 |
| Location | no physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record) |
| Severity | (recall, enforcement, or fleet-wide fault) |
| Scale | not documented |
| Confidence | low |
| Verified flag | Yes - independently re-checked against the cited source |
Summary
A Navy GARC unmanned surface vessel built by Maritime Applied Physics Corp (now BlackSea Technologies) received an inadvertent command while under tow, accelerated past and capsized its support/tug boat near Channel Islands Harbor, CA, cutting the test short, per DefenseScoop and USNI News.
Primary source
Publisher: DefenseScoop · Retrieved: 2026-09-16
Supporting source rows (1)
| Date | Supporting source row | Publisher | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Jun 2025 | Navy experiment cut short after unmanned vessel flipped a support boat | DefenseScoop | DefenseScoop |
Marine robotics context
malfunction context
Maritime Applied Physics Corporation industry position
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