With successes mounting in the United States, Anduril is moving forward with several underwater domain products the company sees as prime candidates for Europe’s diverse maritime environments, from the Arctic to the Mediterranean.
With a growing product line enabling undersea warfare, Anduril believes its maritime domain products fit the needs of several European navies—while meeting the urgency and scale required to quickly stand up a force capable of performing a wide range of defensive and offensive undersea missions.
Naval News had the opportunity to discuss Anduril’s future in European security initiatives with Rich Drake, Anduril’s General Manager for the United Kingdom and Europe, to give an inside look at what is driving Anduril forward within Europe.
Anduril sees the various depth, temperature, and salinity profiles of the European theater—from the North Atlantic to the Mediterranean Sea—as a strength for its family of undersea warfare systems, rather than a concern. The current driving product for the European market is Seabed Sentry, a British designed and engineered product unveiled only a few months ago in the United States.
The Seabed Sentry design went from napkin sketches to full-scale testing, entirely self-funded, in under one year—something Anduril prides itself on.
“We invest heavily in internal research and development. Instead of developing at the government’s pace, we deliver effects that we know the customer has an issue with. That’s how we operate.”
Rich Drake, Anduril’s General Manager for the United Kingdom and Europe
Naval News covered the Seabed Sentry and the wider family of Anduril undersea platforms at Sea Air Space 2025 with Shane Arnott, Anduril’s Senior Vice President for Programs and Engineering, who offered insight into how Seabed Sentry can transform maritime domain awareness in a wide range of scenarios, ranging from disaster response to supporting high-end strike assets on the surface.
Seabed Sentry ultimately offers end users a scalable, affordable real-time undersea surveillance network that no other system currently provides. When paired with Anduril’s Lattice sensor integration software, Seabed Sentry enables persistent, long-endurance undersea surveillance coverage to defend strategic chokepoints or critical undersea infrastructure.
In the context of Europe, it means monitoring, and if needed, defending the Greenland, Iceland, United Kingdom (GIUK) gap with a series of strategically placed Seabed Sentry nodes rather than the multitude of submarine hunting frigates and submarines needed historically. Or monitoring the dozens of undersea cables and pipelines in the Mediterranean from sabotage and destruction.
“Seabed Sentry is absolutely capable and applicable for the littorals and the GIUK gap. The threat from the high north, the need for increased sonar and anti-submarine warfare, and the need to protect national infrastructure sits really well with our products.”
Rich Drake, Anduril’s General Manager for the United Kingdom and Europe
The flexibility of Seabed Sentry and the connectivity it provides would bring a significant boost to NATO undersea security efforts which have ramped up rapidly following the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage in 2022 and a series of submarine cable disruptions in the Baltic Sea in 2024.
But Anduril wants to go further, to enable its full product range in the European security sphere. As Arnott told Naval News at Sea Air Space, Anduril’s products are a family of systems meshed together to provide awareness, intelligence, and strike capability. Drake emphasized how the different undersea warfare products work together.
“Seabed Sentries detect a threat, connected together with Lattice. You have sensed detect effects in Seabed Sentry, then Lattice, the software in the middle, and then Copperhead, which is a next-gen torpedo, essentially an autonomous UUV.”
Rich Drake, Anduril’s General Manager for the United Kingdom and Europe
Copperhead is another undersea warfare system unveiled by Anduril this year. It is launched by Anduril’s various XLUUVs like Dive-LD and Dive-XL which the U.S. Navy has experimented with over the past year, including a high profile test at RIMPAC 2024.
“Seabed Sentry provides a cordon layer, while UUV products like Dive-LD and Dive-XL change the capabilities of navies very quickly to achieve underwater mass. [Anduril’s products] have the opportunity to change the game for European navies, and they can provide European navies the opportunity to achieve mass in their Areas of interest through UUVs and Seabed Sentry.”
Rich Drake, Anduril’s General Manager for the United Kingdom and Europe
An off-the-shelf, mature design for European navies would sharply increase maritime awareness in every environment the theater has, reducing the long development and lead times expected for new programs and clean-sheet designs.
And when paired with one another, Anduril’s products would deliver a fully packaged ISR&T suite to any customer with the added ability to build components or entire systems locally with domestic suppliers—another effort Anduril prides itself on. Drake’s emphasis on “built in Europe” comes on the heels of a newly signed partnership with German defense giant Rheinmetall to build Anduril’s Barracuda low cost cruise missiles, Fury unmanned aerial vehicles, and a wide range of solid rocket motors for applications across Europe.
“If a customer wants to build something domestically, with a localization requirement, the nature of our product avoids exquisite materials to maintain different supply chains to make them easier to manufacture.”
Rich Drake, Anduril’s General Manager for the United Kingdom and Europe
While unable to disclose specific interests across Europe, Drake confirmed that Anduril has pitched Seabed Sentry to the Royal Navy for its ‘Atlantic Bastion’ effort, part of the United Kingdom’s push for autonomous anti-submarine warfare systems in the North Atlantic.
