The Pentagon unveiled a new round of aerial and maritime drones for Replicator, a massive effort to fast-track the delivery ...

Additionally, two drones, the Black Swift Technologies’ SØ and Anduril’s Altius-600, can autonomously chart paths through the hurricane, collecting even more data about the inside of the storm.

Drones have evolved far beyond their decades ... Designed for ISR missions, electronic warfare, and signals intelligence, the Altius-600 can operate for up to four hours and travel about 273 ...

A news release stated the drones gathered information for about ... With an 8-foot wingspan, the 27-pound Altius-600 was flown into a hurricane for the first time in 2022, when it was deployed ...

After that, bigger awards began to roll in. In February 2023, the Department of Defense started buying Anduril’s Altius-600 surveillance/attack drone for delivery to the Ukrainian military and ...

Anduril joined the program in its second tranche, dubbed Replicator 1.2. The company’s Ghost-X and Performance Drone Works C-100 unmanned aerial systems were selected, along with the Altius-600 ...

This drone has been dubbed the “iPhone” by Kyiv’s combat units, as it excels in detecting enemy radar stations and air defense systems. Ukrainian troops also deploy the ALTIUS-600 drone ...

Three American Altius-600 kamikaze drones also took part in the California exercise. The Australians used Skywalker X8 drones, which can be bought on the internet for only a couple of hundred pounds.

The sale would include 291 Altius 600M-V systems, Altius 600 inert training UAVs ... Switchblade 300 drones, valued at $60M; both sales must be approved by the U.S. Congress.