New High-Speed AUVs Introduced with Torpedo Capabilities

Anduril is launching Copperhead, a high-speed, software-defined family of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) built for delivery by autonomous systems.

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 which 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.

Along with the Dive-LD and Dive-XL AUVs, 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.

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 seapower.

These capabilities reportedly meet the needs of the U.S. and its allies for more autonomous, quickly-deployable subsea systems that can integrate with the expanding fleet of autonomous subsea, surface, and air vehicles.

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 enhanced situational awareness, precision engagement, and scalable maritime dominance.