Sagar Defence Engineering
About
About Sagar Defence Engineering
Sagar Defence Engineering develops unmanned marine and aerial systems for defence, survey, offshore and emergency-response missions. Its surface vehicles carry optical, acoustic, AIS and environmental sensors, linking ocean data to shore or satellite networks while operating by remote control, heading hold, waypoint missions or dynamic positioning.
The Genesis control architecture supports collision avoidance, mission plotting, live video, data logging and coordinated or swarm operation, and can also convert existing boats for unmanned use. Marine platforms address hydrographic survey, surveillance, subsea communications, oil-and-gas monitoring and rescue. The Spectre modular multirotor range extends the portfolio into aerial inspection and reconnaissance, with autonomous missions and payload capacity up to five kilograms on the Spectre M.
Team
- Capt. Nikunj Parashar - Founder - Leads Sagar Defence Engineering's unmanned marine and defense robotics work.
- Lakshay Dang - CTO (Marine) - Leads marine technical work for Sagar Defence Engineering's unmanned surface vehicle programs.
Timeline
Events
- 2026-10-12 - Partnership - Sagar Defence and Lloyd’s Register sign maritime autonomy assurance MoU
Work covers verification, validation, testing and classification-readiness assessments. The partners will develop operational concepts, mission profiles and safety cases with regulators and government agencies. System-level assurance will consider vessels, sensors, communications, remote operators and infrastructure under degraded and failure conditions.
Source - 2017-04-18 - Contract Award - Sagar Defence signs autonomous-vessel retrofit contract with Van Oord
The contract was signed on 18 April 2017 during the Rotterdam Mainport Innovation Forum. Sagar Defence was tasked with converting Van Oord remote-operated boats for autonomous survey work. The retrofit scope included collision-avoidance systems.
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Relations
Relationships
- Lloyd’s Register
Partner - Sagar Defence and Lloyd's Register signed an MoU to develop certification and assurance pathways for autonomous maritime systems.
Context
Context tags
- Autonomous marine data collection - Capability - Sagar Defence Engineering — Autonomous collection of oceanographic and environmental data using marine robotics
- Defence maritime autonomy builder - Peer Group - Sagar Defence Engineering — Companies building autonomous maritime systems for defence, naval, ISR, surveillance, strike or contested maritime missions.
Commercial
- Sagar Defence signs autonomous-vessel retrofit contract with Van Oord
2017-04-18 · Order / contract · Sagar Defence signed a contract with Van Oord to retrofit remotely operated boats for autonomous maritime survey operations.
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