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Copperhead

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About Copperhead

Copperhead is Anduril's announced family of high-speed autonomous underwater vehicles designed to launch from larger autonomous host platforms. The vehicles share a modular architecture for undersea sensing, communications, survey and defence payloads. Copperhead-100 has a 12.75-inch diameter, while Copperhead-500 uses a 21-inch body. Anduril specifies speeds above 30 knots and presents the family as an expendable complement to reusable host vehicles, not a crewed or independently based submarine.

The product line separates payload-carrying and missionised variants. Copperhead-100 and Copperhead-500 can carry sensing, communications, magnetometer or chemical-detection payloads; the corresponding 100M and 500M designations identify variants configured with a warhead. Anduril introduced the family as part of its Dive-LD and Dive-XL undersea ecosystem. Copperhead remains at announced maturity, so the published configuration describes the planned family and integration model; it is not a broadly fielded commercial vehicle.

07 APR 2026

Maritime autonomy is broadening

Capabilities

Source-backed capabilities

  • Capability areas: Underwater Acoustic AI
  • Workflows: Underwater Robotics, Marine autonomy workflow
  • Target markets: Defense robotics
  • Search and rescue

    Claimed - 2025-04-07 - Commercial configurations target search and rescue, critical-infrastructure inspection and environmental monitoring.

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  • Environmental monitoring

    Claimed - 2025-04-07 - Commercial configurations target search and rescue, critical-infrastructure inspection and environmental monitoring.

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Supply

Supply / Components

  • Copperhead

    Underwater Acoustic Modem - Communications - Popoto Modem - Popoto acoustic modems were integrated into Copperhead underwater vehicles before Anduril acquired the company - source: tectonicdefense.com

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Timeline

  • Anduril acquires Popoto Modem for underwater fleet communications

    2026-10-02 - Acquisition - The Sandwich, Massachusetts team will join Anduril while continuing to build and sell modems for existing customers. Popoto modems adapt to underwater channel conditions and compensate for Doppler shifts and multipath interference. Anduril plans to expand subsea mesh connectivity between autonomous vehicles, sensors and surface systems.

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  • Anduril unveils Copperhead high-speed AUV family

    2025-04-07 - Product Launch - The family launched with Copperhead-100 and Copperhead-500 models plus Copperhead-M munition configurations. Commercial configurations target search and rescue, critical-infrastructure inspection and environmental monitoring. The vehicles exceed 30 knots and are designed for launch from autonomous subsea, surface and aerial platforms.

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