Dive-LD
About
About Dive-LD
Dive-LD is a large-diameter autonomous underwater vehicle designed for missions lasting up to ten days and reaching depths of 6,000 metres. Its modular payload section supports sonar, sensing and customer-specific equipment for seabed survey, infrastructure inspection, environmental monitoring and defence operations.
The vehicle uses onboard autonomy to plan and execute missions without a continuous tether or support vessel directly overhead. Anduril manufactures Dive-LD through a production-oriented architecture derived from Dive Technologies’ commercial undersea work and connects it to the wider Lattice software environment for mission management and data integration.
Capabilities
Source-backed capabilities
- Capability areas: Autonomous navigation
- Workflows: Marine data collection
- Operating environments: Defence operational environment
- Target markets: Defence customers and research organizations needing large-diameter AUV capability.
- Deployment model: Development-stage defence and research AUV.
- Autonomous undersea missions
Claimed - Anduril describes Dive-LD conducting autonomous seafloor missions for up to ten days at depths down to 6,000 metres, with scalable multi-week endurance.
Source - Extended sea endurance
Claimed - Anduril describes Dive-LD conducting autonomous seafloor missions for up to ten days at depths down to 6,000 metres, with scalable multi-week endurance.
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Supply
Supply / Components
- Dive-LD
Synthetic Aperture Sonar - sensors - Kraken Robotics - Kraken synthetic-aperture sonar was OEM equipment for Anduril Dive-LD - source: krakenrobotics.com
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Timeline
- DIU awards Anduril undersea-warfare contract for Dive-LD capabilities
2024-02-08 - Contract Award - The Defense Innovation Unit awarded Anduril a contract to develop new undersea-warfare capabilities around its Dive-LD autonomous underwater vehicle. The work followed government-carried demos and focused on payload flexibility and long-range autonomous undersea operations. The contract strengthened Anduril's position in autonomous maritime defense systems before later XL-AUV awards.
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Context
Market context
Dive-LD is Anduril large-diameter autonomous undersea vehicle for long-range subsea missions.
- Target environment: Subsea and underwater environments including deep-ocean operational areas.
- Workflow context: Long-range autonomous undersea operations, subsea data collection and defence maritime missions.
- Customer context: Defence customers and research organizations needing large-diameter AUV capability.
- Deployment model: Development-stage defence and research AUV.
- Commercial maturity: Active AUV program with defence and research applications.
- Adoption constraints: Defence procurement cycles and mission-specific payload integration.
- Market position: Anduril large-diameter autonomous undersea vehicle for long-range subsea operations.
- Adjacent products: Dive-XL, Ghost Shark, large AUVs