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Pat Conroy Announces $5.8B Ghost Shark Underwater Autonomy

By Drooid · Oct 20, 2026, 12:33 AM UTC · How we work

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Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy announced Ghost Shark autonomous submarines can carry mines and drones.
$5.8 billion will fund autonomous underwater warfare development over the next decade.
Each Ghost Shark can deploy up to 12 naval mines per mission.
The subs launch swarms of Anduril’s Altius loitering drones, numbers undisclosed.
A third payload stores underwater equipment caches for later special-forces use.

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Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy announced Ghost Shark autonomous submarines can carry mines and drones.
$5.8 billion will fund autonomous underwater warfare development over the next decade.
Each Ghost Shark can deploy up to 12 naval mines per mission.
The subs launch swarms of Anduril’s Altius loitering drones, numbers undisclosed.
A third payload stores underwater equipment caches for later special-forces use.