Anduril ALTIUS-600 Air-Launched Effects Family

The Anduril ALTIUS-600 is an autonomous air-launched-effects aircraft family developed for distributed sensing, teaming, and other multi-mission operations. Official Anduril evidence describes launches from fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft, ground and utility vehicles, and watercraft, with an open architecture supporting many payloads and mission systems. NOAA has also used the ALTIUS-600 with scientific instrumentation for civil hurricane research. In September 2022 it collected observations within Hurricane Ian to help researchers study the turbulent hurricane boundary layer. A 2023 Hurricane Tammy experiment coordinated ALTIUS-600 observations with a saildrone and atmospheric and ocean profilers, linking measurements across the air–sea interface to investigate storm structure and intensification.