Anduril recently launched Copperhead, a high-speed, software-defined family of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) built for delivery by autonomous systems. Victory at sea will require large fleets of autonomous subsea, surface, and air vehicles capable of bringing advanced awareness and overwhelming adversaries with mass maritime effects. With the Dive-LD and Dive-XL, Copperhead enables a comprehensive, intelligent maritime capability that allows operators to quickly respond to threats in the undersea battlespace, at a fraction of the cost of legacy options.

Despite the rapid advances in autonomous vehicles across air, surface, and subsea domains, torpedoes aren’t built at scale and production remains frozen in Cold War-era designs. Current systems are expensive, slow to produce, and tightly coupled to legacy platforms like nuclear submarines and warships. In addition, the U.S. and its allies need far more autonomous, quickly-deployable subsea systems that can integrate with the expanding fleet of autonomous subsea, surface, and air vehicles. Copperhead & Copperhead-M meet these needs. The Copperhead series includes two models—Copperhead-100 and Copperhead-500—offering different sizes, payload capacities, and ranges for commercial and defense missions.

Copperhead-M is a munition variant that arms autonomous vehicles with affordable and mass-producible torpedo-like capabilities. Copperhead-M enhances naval operations by allowing commanders to use autonomous vehicles for high-risk missions, engaging maritime threats more precisely and effectively while protecting more valuable assets and personnel. For example, Anduril’s Dive-XL can carry dozens of Copperhead-100Ms or multiple Copperhead-500Ms, delivering underwater firepower on demand to disable or destroy maritime threats. This makes it possible for a fleet of Dive-XLs to control ocean areas with an unprecedented level of autonomous sea power.

Designed for rapid-response commercial missions like search and rescue, critical infrastructure inspection, and environmental monitoring, Copperhead-100 and Copperhead-500 can reach speeds greater than 30 knots, and can be equipped with payloads such as active and passive sensors, magnetometers, side-scan sonar, or chemical detection.

With the addition of Copperhead, Anduril is building a family of intelligent, autonomous maritime systems that work together to deliver unmatched situational awareness, precision engagement, and scalable maritime dominance. By integrating autonomous capabilities across subsea, surface, and air domains, Anduril is enabling operators to maintain full control of the battlespace, ensuring superiority in any maritime environment.