Anduril's Dive LD is an unmanned underwater vehicle with a composite hull that keeps electronics dry while the rest floods with water. A new Rhode Island factory will ramp production from 12 to 200 units annually. It carries five sensors including side-scan sonar that maps the seafloor acoustically.
What are these made out of, these panels?
These panels that we're looking at today are actually a reinforced composite. If we peeled the panels off, you would see small tubes inside this vehicle to protect the electronics, the computers that need to stay dry. But everything else inside the vehicle is flooded with water.
So a normal submarine, obviously you're trying to keep totally sealed. Everything's got to stay dry.
People inside, they like to stay dry. This just seals the important stuff. Exactly. Yeah.
And these are made in Quincy.
These are.
And then they will be made in Rhode Island.
That's right. So we just cut the ribbon on what will be a 150,000-square-foot facility in Quonset Point, Rhode Island. We will have the capacity in that factory to build up to 200 Dive LDs per year. Okay. Which compared to our current rate, which is closer to 12 Dive LDs per year, is a pretty significant step change. Yeah. This vehicle is configured with what we call a geophysical inspection suite. And there are actually 5 payloads that this vehicle carries. Just below where the break in the panel here is, this is a sensor that we call a side-scanning sonar. Okay. Side-scan sonar is essentially capable of producing acoustic imagery of the seafloor that looks to your eye like a photograph.
Okay.
So let's say you want to find an undersea cable. The type of sensor that you would use to actually locate the object of interest is going to be something like a side-scan sonar. The other sensor that's associated
