Role & capabilities
- Distributed sensing
- Modular mission equipment
- Collaborative-aircraft experimentation
- Primary domain
- Air
- System type
- Multirole aircraft
- Developer / manufacturer
- Anduril Industries / Area-I
- Origin / production countries
- United States
- Other names
- No additional names recorded
- Variants / configurations
- ALTIUS 600; ALTIUS 700; M-designated munition variants require separate configuration evidence
- Operators / programme customers
- US Army development and experimentation organisations
Evidence & current status
Trial status is scoped to the cited Army integrations. ALTIUS 600, 700 and M variants do not share an assumed numerical baseline.
ALTIUS is a family of compact launched-effects aircraft developed by Area-I, which Anduril acquired in 2021. The public programme combines transportable, tube-stored aircraft with interchangeable mission equipment and integration into larger uncrewed-systems networks. ALTIUS 600 and the larger ALTIUS 700 are separate configurations, while munition versions carrying an M suffix require their own qualification.
Anduril documented ALTIUS 600 teaming work during the Army's EDGE 2022 experiment. Its April 2026 account describes a further integration step: an ALTIUS 700 launch from an AH-64E Apache during the preceding month's CFWE26 event. That report also identifies earlier 700 launches from a UH-60 in September 2025 and a longer history of 600 helicopter-launch work.
These events demonstrate aircraft and launcher integration, not the acceptance of every variant as a fleet-wide capability. The sources reviewed here do not provide a single current, configuration-specific numerical performance table. This entry therefore preserves the family distinctions and verified test context without importing figures from older brochures or from the unrelated Russian Altius/Altair programme.
Sourced specifications
Figures apply to the named configuration. Maximum values are not guaranteed operating performance.
| Specification | Reported value | Context & source |
|---|---|---|
| Airframe | Tube-stored deployable-wing aircraft family | Published configuration baseline; maxima are not necessarily simultaneous. Source ↗ |
| Launch / recovery | Air and other platform launch integrations; the cited 2026 trial concerns ALTIUS 700 | Test configuration, not a universal launch certification for every variant. Source ↗ |
| Propulsion | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗ |
| Dimensions | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗ |
| Mass | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗ |
| Endurance | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗ |
| Range | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗ |
| Speed | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗ |
| Altitude | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗ |
| Payload | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗ |
| Sensors | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗ |
| Communications / navigation | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗ |
Publication history
- — Added in the September 2026 global coverage review, with sources, configuration limits and explicit data gaps.
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Follow the evidence
Source types identify who makes the claim. Programme milestones and supplier statements should be read in context.
- Anduril Army Apache integration report, 6 April 2026 (opens in a new tab)Manufacturer / programme
- Anduril ALTIUS 600 EDGE 2022 report (opens in a new tab)Manufacturer / programme
- Anduril acquisition of Area-I, 1 April 2021 (opens in a new tab)Manufacturer / programme