Sting in the tail

摘要

DCNS and Navantia have ended their 15-year-long collaboration on the Scorpene submarine project after an acrimonious fallout over intellectual property. The split comes after an 18-month court battle during which Navantia was accused of siphoning off technology to develop its own submarine project. The French and Spanish defence giants co-built four submarines, two each for the navies of Chile and Malaysia.