Soframe, Thales and ArianeGroup have used Eurosatory to frame X-Fire and B-Strike as a single French deep-strike stack, moving from modular rocket artillery to conventional ballistic missiles. The pitch is built around X-Fire’s rapid deployment, foreign-munition compatibility and a ballistic layer that extends the system toward the 1,000 km class, with B-Strike scaling to 2,500 km in its top configuration.
The timing is deliberate: France has just opened exclusive talks on a rival LRU successor, and the consortium is trying to keep the sovereign option alive in parallel. If the package gains traction, the competition for post-LRU land strike will widen beyond rockets into a full operational-range missile architecture.