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- Ghostfin is Albacore's expeditionary drone submarine: a small, mass-producible autonomous undersea vehicle for military operators, built from commercial off-the-shelf components with modular payloads.
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- Albacore says it travels up to 1,000 nautical miles and loiters up to 30 days, and can be launched from boats, piers, or beaches with minimal infrastructure.
- Best for
- National navies, defense ministries, and defense integrators that need attritable long-range undersea sensing or payload delivery launched without specialized platforms.
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- Also named by the founders as a secondary fit for commercial survey and oceanographic operators.
- Pricing
- Price is undisclosed.
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- Albacore publishes no price list, MSRP, lease terms, or fee schedule
- the only commercial path shown is a business-inquiry contact form at albacore.inc/contact.
- This is a physical hardware sale, so the usual subscription, spread, commission, and gas-fee categories do not apply
- Main limitation
- Consumers, hobbyists, and academic labs — this is a defense article with a strike-payload option, so export control and procurement rules apply (an inference, not an Albacore statement).
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- Poor fit for buyers who need units now: production sales were expected only after an initial production run in mid-2026.
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About
- Ghostfin is Albacore's expeditionary drone submarine: a small, mass-producible autonomous undersea vehicle for military operators, built from commercial off-the-shelf components with modular payloads.
- Albacore says it travels up to 1,000 nautical miles and loiters up to 30 days, and can be launched from boats, piers, or beaches with minimal infrastructure.
What it helps with
- Undersea drones have not scaled the way aerial quadcopters have, leaving a mass-production gap in long-range autonomous
- Launching undersea vehicles usually requires specialized platforms and infrastructure; Ghostfin is designed to launch fr
- Comparable-size undersea vehicles have short transit range; Albacore claims 10x the transit distance of similarly sized
- Coastal and chokepoint defense needs persistent, low-cost undersea presence; the founders frame the vehicle as sea-denia
- Payload capacity is disputed in public sources: the official spec sheet states 200 lbs max payload while the founders to
- Public contract terms are missing: the reported Navy deal has no announced value, program name, or delivery date.
- Field maturity is limited to river and Florida testing per reporting; DoD demos and Balikatan 2026 participation were co
Capabilities
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| Offering | Available | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Base length | Yes | 102 in (about 8.5 ft) per the official spec sheet; earlier Y Combinator material described a 6-ft submarine. |
| Outer diameter | Yes | 12.75 in, official spec. |
| Dry weight | Yes | 425 lbs, official spec. |
| Max payload | Limited | Official spec states 200 lbs; the founders told WHYY 250 lbs and the 50-lb gap is unresolved publicly. |
| Range | Yes | 1,000 nmi claimed, described by Albacore as 10x vehicles of comparable size. |
| Endurance | Yes | 30 days claimed on the official site. |
| Modular payloads | Yes | Configurable mission modules for survey, logistics, and strike, enabling upgrades and rapid maintenance. |
| Launch footprint | Yes | Albacore states launch from boats, piers, or beaches with minimal infrastructure; the two-person launch detail comes from reporting, not the spec sheet. |
| Sensors and autonomy | Yes | Periscope with omni-directional cameras for visual perception and surface navigation, plus onboard navigational software; performance is not independently verified. |
| Published pricing | No | No price list, lease terms, or fee schedule is published; only a business-inquiry contact form. |
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