Role & capabilities
- Reconnaissance
- Primary domain
- Air
- System type
- Reconnaissance aircraft
- Developer / manufacturer
- Schiebel
- Origin / production countries
- Austria
- Other names
- No additional names recorded
- Variants / configurations
- Not distinguished in reviewed sources
- Operators / programme customers
- Not identified in reviewed sources
Evidence & current status
Manufacturer reports flight testing; EDF project selection is a research milestone, not customer service acceptance.
S-300 is Schiebel’s larger uncrewed helicopter development. Its current product page explicitly describes an ongoing flight-test campaign. Selection for the European Defence Fund SWORD research project in June 2026 adds a concrete programme relationship, but does not constitute an operational fleet order or acceptance.
The manufacturer publishes a seven-hundred-kilogram maximum take-off baseline and endurance objectives. Payload language on the page needs care: cargo capacity and a broader payload allowance are not necessarily the same accounting basis. This record avoids combining the largest load claim with maximum endurance without a matched configuration.
S-300 remains distinct from S-100 and the separately marketed S-301 defence product. Family resemblance and common industrial ownership do not establish identical equipment or approval status. The profile records the flown development and its published airframe characteristics; final qualification, accepted customer configuration and production quantities remain evidence questions.
Sourced specifications
Figures apply to the named configuration. Maximum values are not guaranteed operating performance.
| Specification | Reported value | Context & source |
|---|---|---|
| Airframe | Uncrewed helicopter | S-300 development. Source ↗ |
| Launch / recovery | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗ |
| Propulsion | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗ |
| Dimensions | 4.85 m length; 5.3 m rotor diameter | Current supplier table. Source ↗ |
| Mass | 700 kg maximum take-off | Development baseline. Source ↗ |
| Endurance | Up to 24 hours advertised | Not assumed with maximum cargo. Source ↗ |
| Range | Up to 200 km datalink | Communications reach. Source ↗ |
| Speed | 55 knots cruise; 120 knots dash | Different operating conditions. Source ↗ |
| Altitude | 21,000 ft advertised ceiling | Not proof of a completed flight test at that altitude. Source ↗ |
| Payload | Configuration-dependent; cargo and total-load wording differ | Do not combine the page’s differently defined maxima. 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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