Overview
BNS Sagar M91 is Bangladesh’s single documented Type 010 minesweeper in this source review.
Developed for Bangladesh Navy, Type 010 / BNS Sagar minesweeper belongs to the Mine warfare vessels family and is associated with Late Cold War, Post-Cold War, and Twenty-first century. Its documented designations include Minehunter, Minesweeper, and Mine countermeasures vessel, while its intended roles include Mine hunting, Minesweeping, and Mine countermeasures.
Development and construction
Bangladesh ordered the Chinese-built vessel in 1993 and commissioned it in April 1995.
The documented program for Type 010 / BNS Sagar minesweeper lists 1 planned, 1 ordered, 1 laid down, 1 completed, and 0 cancelled. These figures provide the clearest available measure of the class's planned and completed scale.
Design characteristics and intended role
The surviving classification data associates Type 010 / BNS Sagar minesweeper with Low-signature mine-warfare platform, Mine detection, and Mine neutralization. Read together with the recorded roles of Mine hunting, Minesweeping, and Mine countermeasures, these attributes show the operational problem the design was intended to address without implying specifications that the sources do not establish.
The class record identifies Bangladesh Navy as the principal design or service authority. Where individual ships changed navy, name, or pennant, those later identities are retained on the ship pages rather than treated as separate vessels.
Service history and class roster
The vessel remains listed in active Bangladesh Navy service in the control source.
The class roster currently links 1 ship. Named members include BNS Sagar. The linked ships are associated with Bangladesh Navy.
Historical significance
Sagar provides the Bangladesh service branch of the Chinese Type 010/T-43-derived mine-warfare family now documented by WAR-CL-000369.
Type 010 / BNS Sagar minesweeper is most useful when read as both a design and a group of individual careers. The class page establishes the shared technical and operational context; the linked ship pages preserve differences in construction, service identity, deployment, transfer, preservation, and fate where those details are documented.
Ships in this class
Showing 1 recorded class members.
Sources and further reading
- BNS Sagar (M91) ↗Wikipedia · accessed 2026-09-20
- T 43 CLASS (TYPE 010 / Type 6605, 6610) — minesweepers, ocean ↗GlobalSecurity.org · accessed 2026-09-20