New High-Speed AUVs Introduced with Torpedo Capabilities

Anduril is unveiling its new Copperhead line of high-speed AUVs, equipped with torpedo-like capabilities to enhance precision engagement in naval operations By William Mackenzie / 09 Apr 2025

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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.

Posted by William Mackenzie Edited by William Mackenzie, Junior Editor and Copywriter practised in digital content creation and writing about defense and marine technology. Connect & Contact

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