TehranThe Navy’s Dive-LD was built to be lost.
What matters now is what its autonomy software reveals, not the 19-foot hull itself.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps recovered the drone largely intact near the Strait of Hormuz, though a US official called it an older model carrying no classified sonar.
Anduril has not said whether the captured unit’s navigation behavior can be reverse-engineered.
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- The War Zone
- highlights first operational loss of Dive-LD, Navy's newest UUV (deployed <2 years), captured with advanced capabilities exposed
Sources: The War Zone