Source record CMC Political Work Department · 2026-06-10

From Reconnaissance and Detection Platform to Offensive Munition — What Does the Evolution of the "Copperhead" Mean?

从侦察探测平台到攻击性弹药，铜斑蛇”的进化意味什么

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从侦察探测平台到攻击性弹药 “铜斑蛇”的进化意味什么 ■石毅初美国安杜里尔工业公司的“铜斑蛇-500”无人潜航器。今年4月，美国安杜里尔工业公司发布的一段海上测试视频引发外界关注。这次测试的对象是该公司研发的“铜斑蛇-500M”无人潜航器。测试中，该型无人潜航器在复杂海域环境中展现出较强的续航、机动能力以及较高的行动自主性。与“铜斑蛇-500”无人潜航器相比，带有“M”后缀的“铜斑蛇-500M”有所不同。前者是水中侦察探测平台，后者则是同源设计的攻击性弹药。该公司研发的“铜斑蛇-100”与“铜斑蛇-100M”，两者之间的差别与此类似。作为“小一号”的同系列产品，“铜斑蛇-100”与“铜斑蛇-100M”的价格相对较低，更有利于大批量生产、规模化列装部署。 “铜斑蛇”系列无人潜航器原来的定位，是实施海底侦察、环境监测的自主水下平台。如今在该平台基础上改造推出的“铜斑蛇-100M”和“铜斑蛇-500M”，则“摇身一变”为水下攻击性弹药。客观来说，这种进化不仅仅是一次功能拓展，而是很可能预示着，无人潜航器将正式成为重要的水下打击火力。 “铜斑蛇”系列无人潜航器的核心突破，不在于其性能的提升，而在于应用理念的颠覆性革新。它能够兼容多平台、多场景灵活投放，某种意义上是对传统水下作战模式的一种重构。尤其是“大型无人潜航器+‘铜斑蛇-500M’”的组合，将使后者在一定条件下，发挥出相当于传统重型鱼雷的毁伤能力。换句话说，无人潜航器已能在更多方面代替有人潜艇遂行一些重要任务。这种能力的增长，源于科技尤其是人工智能技术的发展。有人潜艇搜索目标、鱼雷命中目标，离不开外部信息的支撑及信号的稳定性，但水下环境的特殊性，使信息的快速获取与传输变得十分困难。人工智能的引入，在一定程度上解决了相关问题。以“铜斑蛇-500M”为例，其内部核心控制系统采用安杜里尔工业公司自研的Lattice人工智能平台，这个平台能够依托自身计算能力本地实时处理多源传感器数据，自主完成目标的探测、识别及对航路的规划，在预设的交战规则、任务边界内，自主锁定并打击目标。一般来说，传统的鱼雷缺乏与其他平台实时互通数据的能力，但无人潜航器在这方面具有优势。“铜斑蛇”系列从侦察探测平台到攻击性弹药的这种“进化”，正是安杜里尔工业公司体系化思维的结果。其目的是打造可协同作战的水下无人作战力量，通过共享目标数据，实现数十甚至上百个此类平台的自主协同作战，完成区域封控、立体饱和攻击等复杂任务。同时，该公司还企图赋予它与陆上无人作战系统、空中无人机集群跨域协同的能力。 “铜斑蛇”无人潜航器虽具备一些先进性，但也存在不少缺点，如能源供应主要依赖电池，续航能力有限；主要通过声学或光学混合通信技术进行数据传输和指令接收，水下复杂环境中易受干扰；作为低成本设计的无人平台，其结构强度和防护水平相对有限等。然而瑕不掩瑜，从某种程度上来说，不断进化的“铜斑蛇”，顺应了全球无人化、分布式作战的发展潮流，也给各国海军装备的发展提供了新的方向与选项。可以预见，如果今后各国纷纷研发并列装此类水下无人作战力量，不仅会改变海战的攻防逻辑，甚至可能重塑全球海洋安全格局。

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Anduril Industries' April maritime test of the Copperhead-500M UUV demonstrated autonomous target detection, identification, and strike using the company's onboard Lattice AI platform — marking the conversion of a reconnaissance-origin platform into an offensive munition capable of delivering, in combination with a larger host UUV, destructive power comparable to a heavyweight torpedo. The article documents a specific design logic: Anduril built the offensive variants (Copperhead-100M and -500M) on existing reconnaissance hulls to enable mass production and multi-platform deployment, with the explicit goal of enabling collaborative swarm operations — area blockade and multi-layered saturation attack — and cross-domain integration with land and aerial unmanned systems. The framing points to PLA naval equipment planners reading this as a template for distributed underwater strike development, though the article does not identify any Chinese program, unit, or procurement response.

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Source text. CMC Political Work Department. "从侦察探测平台到攻击性弹药，铜斑蛇”的进化意味什么." PLA Daily (解放军报), 2026-06-10. http://www.81.cn/yw_208727/16466491.html.

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