“In December last year, we entered into a state contract for the development of Altius-RU R&D on the creation of a reconnaissance-strike complex with a new generation long-range unmanned aerial vehicle equipped with a satellite communications system, artificial intelligence elements capable of interacting with manned aircraft”, - TASS quotes the words of the deputy head of the Ministry of Defense of Russia Alexey Krivoruchko.

In August 2019, the Russian military department published a video of the first flight of the Altius-U unmanned aerial vehicle.

Retired military expert and colonel Viktor Litovkin commented on a test of this UAV in an interview with RT.

Read more about Altius-U in RT.