"The partnership forged by French naval shipbuilding and systems group DCN and its Spanish counterpart Navantia in the conventional submarine export market looks set to break apart as the two companies look to further their rival international ambitions. Despite securing ten orders for variants of their jointly developed Scorpene design over the past nine years, a growing schism has emerged at corporate levels as the two partners seek to bring their respective Marlin and S-80A designs to the market."