ALTIUS-600
The Anduril/Area-I ALTIUS-600 is a multi-mission tube-launched loitering munition with 4+ hours endurance and 440 km range: designed for swarm attacks, it is integrated on helicopters, MQ-1C Gray Eagle ER, ships and US Army Multi-Domain Task Forces.
ALTIUS-600
The Anduril/Area-I ALTIUS-600 is a multi-mission tube-launched loitering munition with 4+ hours endurance and 440 km range: designed for swarm attacks, it is integrated on helicopters, MQ-1C Gray Eagle ER, ships and US Army Multi-Domain Task Forces.
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Identity
- Designation
- ALTIUS-600
- Alias
- Anduril/Area-I ALTIUS-600 / 600M
- Manufacturer
- Anduril Industries (ex Area-I)
- Country
- United States
- Year
- 2020
- Category
- Loitering munition
- Class
- Small (< 25 kg)
- Status
- In service
Performance
- Range
- 440 km
- Endurance
- 4 h+
- Top speed
- 204 km/h
- Service ceiling
- 7,600 m
- Propulsion
- Elettrico (motore brushless), ali pieghevoli
Physical characteristics
- MTOW
- 12.2 kg
- Payload
- 3 kg
- Weapons
- Testata HE/frag (600M) o ISR/EW pod (600)
Onboard systems
- Sensors
- EO/IR, SIGINT, payload modulare swap-in
- Datalink / control
- Mesh networking Lattice AI, SATCOM opzionale
- Launch
- Tubo di lancio (CCLS) — da terra, elicottero, drone, nave
- Recovery
- Paracadute (ALTIUS-600) o impatto (ALTIUS-600M)
Combat use
- ▸US Army EDGE 21/22/23 exercises — helicopter-launched swarms
- ▸Ukraine (2023-) — limited supply confirmed
- ▸Pentagon Replicator initiative (2024-)
- ▸US Army Project Convergence exercises
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History
Developed by Area-I (acquired by Anduril in 2021), the ALTIUS-600 first flew in 2020 demonstrating swarm launch from a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter and from an MQ-1C Gray Eagle.
In 2023 it was selected by the US Army for the Launched Effects Long Range (LE-LR) program and delivered to Ukraine in PDA packages for long-range strikes behind Russian lines.
On the development side, the Area-I/Anduril ALTIUS-600 is a tube-launched Air-Launched Effect (ALE): fired from helicopters (AH-64, UH-60), mothership drones (Gray Eagle, MQ-9), manned aircraft and even from the ground, it deploys wings and tail and glides hundreds of km with modular payloads (ISR, EW, kamikaze).
On the collaborative-swarm battlefield, the ALTIUS-600 is the heart of the US Army Air-Launched Effects (ALE) program for Future Vertical Lift: ALE swarms launched from helicopters probe enemy airspace, jam radars and engage targets as loitering munitions.
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