RobotRisk / Maritime Applied Physics Corporation / 2025-06-23

Navy experiment cut short after unmanned vessel flipped a support boat

S3 · 06/23
2025 · 15:28 · Maritime Applied Physics Corporation

Record

Company	Maritime Applied Physics Corporation
Category	marine robotics
Type	malfunction
Date	06/23 2025
Time of day	15:28
Location	no physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record)
Severity	S3 (recall, enforcement, or fleet-wide fault)
Scale	-
Confidence	low
Verification	Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source
Source	DefenseScoop

What happened

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.

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