Cost and flexibility benefits
The XL-AUV is designed in such a fashion that it can be launched, employed, and recovered by warfighters with ease using minimal infrastructure and heavy equipment – both at the sea or on the shore. It is designed to fit inside standard 40 feet shipping containers.

Further, Anduril also says that modular platform like Dive-XL is comparatively quite cheap to manufacture and deploy. It costs substantially less than crewed submarines, and multiple units can be made within a short period of time.


As per Anduril, its modular design is freely flooded, relying on smaller, commercial off the shelf pressure vessels to house critical systems like navigation, communications, and batteries.