Facts

• Company: Anduril Industries
• Product type: Auv
• Status: development

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Tags
• Timeline / Research
• Operations Claims / Customers and deployments
• Comparable Systems
• Sources

Summary

Ghost Shark is Anduril extra-large autonomous undersea vehicle for long-range defense missions.

Overview

Ghost Shark is Anduril extra-large autonomous undersea vehicle for long-range defense missions.

Market context

Ghost Shark is Anduril Australia extra-large autonomous undersea vehicle program for the Royal Australian Navy.

• Target environment: Subsea defence operational environments including contested underwater areas.
• Workflow context: Autonomous undersea operations, subsea defence and maritime security for naval operations.
• Customer context: Defence customers including the Royal Australian Navy for AUV capability.
• Deployment model: Active defence procurement program from prototype to production fleet.
• Commercial maturity: Active defence AUV program transitioning from prototype into a program of record.
• Adoption constraints: Defence procurement cycles and naval integration requirements.
• Market position: Anduril Australia XL-AUV program moving from prototype to production for the Royal Australian Navy.
• Adjacent products: Dive-XL, Dive-LD, defence AUVs

Audience

Defense

Workflow

Autonomous undersea operations, subsea defence and maritime security for naval operations.

Capability

Autonomous navigation

Deployment environment

Subsea defence operational environments including contested underwater areas.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Defense
• Workflow: Autonomous undersea operations, subsea defence and maritime security for naval operations.
• Capability: Autonomous navigation
• Deployment environment: Subsea defence operational environments including contested underwater areas.

Specifications

• Contract Value: 1700000000 AUD
• Form Type: Extra-large autonomous undersea vehicle
• Customer Program: Royal Australian Navy Ghost Shark program
• Production Status: Program of record
• Mission Profile: Intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and strike
• Manufacturing Location: Australia

Tags

• Peer Group: Maritime AUV
• Workflow: Marine data collection
• Capability: Autonomous navigation
• Deployment Environment: Defence operational environment
• Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
• Commercial Stage: Commercial product
• Market Signal: Defence procurement signal

Timeline / Research

• 2025-10-31 - Production Milestone - Ghost Shark factory opens in Sydney with first vehicle off the line - Anduril announced the Sydney Ghost Shark factory had opened and the first vehicle had come off the line ahead of…
• 2025-09-09 - Award - Ghost Shark enters program of record - Anduril said the Royal Australian Navy had awarded Anduril Australia an A$1.7 billion program of record to deliver a fleet of Ghost Shark XL-AUVs.
• 2024-08-14 - Facility Opening - Anduril Australia to build Ghost Shark factory - Anduril Australia announced construction of its first factory for Ghost Shark extra-large autonomous undersea vehicles.

Operations Claims / Customers and deployments

• First Vehicle Off Line - first Ghost Shark vehicle off the line - 2025-10-31 - Sydney Ghost Shark factory - autonomous underwater vehicle production - Anduril opened the Ghost Shark factory in Sydney and completed the f…
• Production Milestone - 1 source-backed production milestone - 2025-10-31 - Anduril opens Sydney Ghost Shark factory and completes first vehicle
• Facility Event - 1 source-backed facility/manufacturing event - 2024-08-14 - Anduril Australia to build Ghost Shark factory

Comparable Systems

• Dive-LD - Anduril Industries - Auv