Indian, US firms to make unmanned sea vessels

Pune-headquartered Sagar Defence Engineering, which has a tie-up with Liquid Robotics, a Boeing company, inaugurated its new plant in Pune today. The facility will manufacture sea-going uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs).

The partnership between Sagar Defence and Liquid Robotics, announced earlier this year, aims to co-develop and co-produce advanced maritime systems.

The USVs produced at the new facility will strengthen undersea domain awareness through local manufacturing. The initiative also advances the partnership under the US-India Major Defence Partnership framework by enabling co-production in undersea domain awareness, expanding industry participation and building production capacity across the Indo-Pacific region.