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Boeing Orca XLUUV
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Boeing Orca XLUUV

Boeing Orca is the US Navy's diesel-electric extra-large uncrewed undersea vehicle, developed for mine warfare and modular undersea missions.

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USAPro

Anduril Dive-LD

Anduril Dive-LD is a US large autonomous underwater vehicle designed for long-endurance undersea surveillance, mine countermeasures, seabed mapping and modular payload delivery.

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Iran

Iran Recovered a $2.5 Million Dive-LD Intact

The vehicle Iran recovered near the Strait of Hormuz cost about as much as one Tomahawk. Its intact, mass-produced hull may be worth more to an adversary than the secrets it was not carrying.

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USAPro

Anduril Copperhead

Anduril Copperhead is a family of compact autonomous underwater vehicles and expendable armed variants designed to extend uncrewed sensing and strike networks into the undersea domain.