Indian Navy has signed contract for autonomous armed boat swarms under SPRINT scheme.
- This is the 50th contract under ‘SPRINT’, which aims at the development of 75 indigenous technologies by the industry for the Navy.
- Sagar Defence Engineering has the know-how to create the nation’s first armed autonomous unmanned boat with swarming capabilities.
- The platform will be able to conduct a range of navy and security tasks including high-speed interdiction; surveillance; constabulary operations; Command, Control, Communications, Computers (C4) Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR); and low-intensity maritime operations.
About SPRINT
- SPRINT’ stands for Supporting Pole-vaulting In R&D through Innovations for Defence Excellence (IdeX), Naval Innovation and Indigenisation Organisation (NIIO) and Technology Development Acceleration Cell (TDAC).
- SPRINT was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in July 2022.
