Role & capabilities
- Surveillance
- Modular payload carriage
- Shipboard operations proposed
- Primary domain
- Air
- System type
- Multirole aircraft
- Developer / manufacturer
- FT Sistemas
- Origin / production countries
- Brazil
- Other names
- No additional names recorded
- Variants / configurations
- Not distinguished in reviewed sources
- Operators / programme customers
- Not identified in reviewed sources
Evidence & current status
No current named military acceptance located; technical values remain manufacturer claims.
The FT-200 FH is a Brazilian remotely piloted helicopter with counter-rotating rotors. FT Sistemas presents the arrangement as a compact platform for carrying different equipment, with intended operation from land sites or vessels. It is distinct from the company's smaller fixed-wing FT-100 Horus and should not inherit that aircraft's military service history.
The manufacturer's page advertises automated flight management, a portable ground station and optional combinations of electro-optical, infrared, laser-scanning and radar equipment. Published figures include ten hours of endurance, a 100-kilometre range and up to fifty kilograms of payload. Those limits are configuration-dependent; the page does not show a test proving maximum payload and maximum endurance simultaneously.
A 2019 Brazilian naval professional publication records the FT-200 proposal and notes difficulty translating it into a firm armed-force requirement. That historical discussion is not a current cancellation notice, but neither is the present product page proof of operational adoption. This record therefore captures a defence-relevant supplier offering, with named military orders, contemporary flight-test evidence and delivered configuration details still requiring confirmation.
Sourced specifications
Figures apply to the named configuration. Maximum values are not guaranteed operating performance.
| Specification | Reported value | Context & source |
|---|---|---|
| Airframe | Coaxial counter-rotating helicopter | Published baseline for this model; maxima are not necessarily simultaneous. Source |
| Launch / recovery | Vertical take-off and landing | Published baseline for this model; maxima are not necessarily simultaneous. Source |
| Propulsion | 16.5 hp engine; gasoline or aviation-kerosene options advertised | Published baseline for this model; maxima are not necessarily simultaneous. 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 | 10 hours advertised | Published baseline for this model; maxima are not necessarily simultaneous. Source |
| Range | 100 km advertised | Product page also mentions a 180 km communications network; these are not treated as the same range measure. 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 | Up to 50 kg | Published baseline for this model; maxima are not necessarily simultaneous. 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
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- FT-200 FH product (opens in a new tab)Manufacturer / programme
- Brazilian Navy professional review, 2019 (opens in a new tab)Government / professional publication