Buying guide
Ghost Shark (XL-AUV) vs Saronic USV (Corsair / Mirage / Marauder) in 2026
Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.
| Attribute | No image on file | No image on file |
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Anduril Industries | Saronic Technologies |
| Form factor | maritime | maritime |
| Maturity | production | commercial |
| Availability | internal-onlyenterprise | internal-onlyenterprise |
| Price | Not announced | Not announced |
| Capability claims | — | — |
| Brain |
| — |
| Verified deployments | 1Royal Australian Navy | 1United States Navy |
| Privacy practices | — | — |
| Sources on file | 7 | 7 |
Editorial summaries
Ghost Shark (XL-AUV)
Anduril's Ghost Shark is an extra-large autonomous undersea vehicle (XL-AUV) and the production-maturity anchor of the defense-subsea cohort, extending the new-defense AI-first model (Anduril, Shield AI, Helsing, and Saronic on the surface) into the subsea regime. It is co-developed with the Royal Australian Navy and the Defence Science and Technology Group, leverages Dive-LD technology and Anduril's Lattice AI, and is backed by an A$1.7 billion RAN production contract (September 2025). Two cap-flags: the A$1.7B figure is the production contract, distinct from the A$140M 2022 co-development funding that aggregator reporting sometimes conflates with it; and detailed specs (around 12 meters length, plus displacement, endurance, and depth) are estimates, because the Australian Department of Defence withholds the design. It is defense procurement; there is no consumer price.
Saronic USV (Corsair / Mirage / Marauder)
Saronic Technologies (founded 2022 in Austin, Texas by Dino Mavrookas, an eleven-year Navy SEAL, with CTO Vibhav Altekar, an early Anduril engineer who worked on Ghost Shark) makes defense autonomous surface vessels and is the new-defense maritime archetype, extending the AI-first defense cohort of Anduril, Shield AI, and Helsing from the air into the surface-naval regime. Its production line is the 24-foot Corsair (1,000+ nm, 1,000 lb), the 52-foot Mirage (2,500+ nm, 3,500 lb), and the 180-foot Marauder medium uncrewed surface vessel, and it is building a 'Port Alpha' shipyard. Its funding ladder ran from a $175M Series B at a $1B valuation (2024) to a $600M Series C at $4B (February 2025) to a $1.75 billion Series D at a $9.25 billion valuation on March 31, 2026, led by Kleiner Perkins. DEPLOY records it at early commercial maturity on one real production-intent Navy contract with money obligated. A precise cap-flag on that contract: the often-cited $392 million figure is a Navy other-transaction-authority ceiling through 2031 with about $197 million obligated in July 2025, and the Navy did not name a vessel. As defense procurement, there is no consumer price.
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