Product profile
Copperhead
Anduril Copperhead is a family of high-speed autonomous undersea vehicles designed for deployable sensing, communications, survey and defense payloads from...
Facts
- Company
- Anduril Industries
- Product type
- auv
- Status
- announced
- Primary capability
- undersea_sensing
- Website
- https://www.anduril.com/copperhead
About Copperhead
Anduril Copperhead is a family of high-speed autonomous undersea vehicles designed for deployable sensing, communications, survey and defense payloads from autonomous host platforms.
Market context
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Summary
Type: High-speed AUV
Core: Copperhead
Function: Undersea missions
Audience: Naval operators
Specifications
- communications
- Acoustic communications with underwater vehicles and RF links with above-water assets
- diameter
- 12.75 in Copperhead-100/100M; 21 in Copperhead-500/500M
- example_payloads
- Sensing, communications, magnetometer and chemical detection payloads; side-scan sonar and magnetometer configurations
- launch_platforms
- XL-AUV, small+ ASV, medium+ ASV and Group 4+/5 AAV host platforms
- max_speed_knots
- Sprint speed over 30 knots kn
- underwater_autonomy
- AI-enabled edge compute for detection, tracking and obstacle avoidance
Operations
- Environment
- underwater, maritime, defense
- Primary user
- naval operators, maritime security teams, undersea system integrators
- Role
- undersea_sensing, maritime_surveillance, autonomous_payload_deployment
- Interaction model
- autonomous, remote_supervised
- Mobility class
- autonomous_underwater_vehicle
- Product detail
- https://zlsbkmaixmmnjrgpkcyp.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/robotics_assets/products/korthos-product-candidates-2026-08-19-batch-10/anduril-copperhead-official-16x9.jpg, modular_auv, marine_robot, 1600, 900, 7c26b2b007226532ed7aa5258c51fe9ffbca7997ab86671256f52741c1d3175b, reviewed_16x9_official_media, High-Speed AUV, robotics_assets, https://cdn.sanity.io/images/61nocsj5/production/a76d7b277122219d89c1be7619c8f7e9ba60c28b-8192x5461.jpg, https://www.anduril.com/news/anduril-unveils-copp...
Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Anduril completes first YFQ-44A Fury at Arsenal-1 — 2026-07-27
- Anduril and Archer unveil Thunder autonomous attack rotorcraft — 2026-07-20
- Anduril YFQ-44A fires AIM-120 in first live-weapons test — 2026-07-15
- Anduril, PGZ and WZL-2 agree Barracuda-500M production in Poland — 2026-07-06
- Anduril and Taiwan MIRDC sign MOU to expand UAV supply-chain integration — 2026-06-04
- Anduril closes $5B Series H at $61B valuation — 2026-05-13
- Anduril wins Tactical Missile Innovation Prize Challenge — 2026-04-02
- JIATF-401 selects Lattice for enterprise tactical counter-UAS command and control — 2026-03-20