Anything below $100 million is not quite a loss for a company with $billion grade civilian & defense orders. They can easily compensate for that, use those components on next orders (DSME1400 fulfills the sweet spot Type 209-1200 had years ago).Well, according to Naval Group, those Scorpènes are a follow on order from TNI-AL seperate from Nagapasa batch 2 deal, but what exactly is true is hard to be told atm.
In case those Scorpènes are actually replacing Nagapasa batch 2 ships, then I could say one thing for sure, that they should stop bitching about AUKUS lol
Koreans usually do not do something like this and they are very keen on agreements, legal works, ie. not moving a finger withour procedures being fulfilled. What made them do such a move this time? There wasn't even a finalized contract. I can see they made this to lower costs on production by scheduling and occupying the line as short as possible.. but yeah whatever.