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Saturday, February 11, 2012

How much for the Scorpenes?

Scorpene class submarineAccording to different sources in France, the two Scorpene submarines sold to Malaysia would have cost about 670 million euros (RM2.1billion in 2002*), about half of the total deal.

The sale of the two Scorpene submarines to Malaysia, signed in June 2002 by the DCN-I in France and managed by the commercial company Armaris one month later, is part of a larger programme called Soumalais.

This programme is divided into four contracts – Scorpene, Malsout, Training and Ouessant.

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