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Safehaven Marine’s Bad-Ass Rescue/Military Boat is Uncapsizable, Fast and Lethal

The UK’s Safehaven Marine makes specialty watercraft for SAR (search and rescue) and military applications, and their latest design is like something out of a spy movie: The XSV 17 Thunder Child, kitted out with stealth technology that makes it nearly invisible on radar, night vision camera systems, HyperSpike acoustic devices that you blast to deter opponents, a gyroscopically-stabilized remote controlled 12.7mm machine gun that pops up out of watertight hatches, two 1,000-horsepower Caterpillar engines and ROSY.

ROSY (a nickname for Rapid Obscuring System) works like this:

That video above was a demonstration of ROSY, not the actual Thunder Child. She looks like this:

In the video below she demonstrates her special trick–an inability to remain capsized, should she turn over in rough waters:

The boat’s prow is designed to cut through waves taken head-on, to minimize slamming up and down in rough water. For both that and the uncapsizing trick, the crew sit in shock-mitigating seating designed with built-in suspension systems:

But one thing they can’t do, I’m guessing, is prevent me from vomiting every time the boat goes over.