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.

Full report : Anduril unveils new torpedo that can be launched by underwater drones.