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Stratus, formerly known as the Future Cruise/Anti-Ship Weapon (FC/ASW) or FMAN/FMC in French (Futur Missile Anti-Navire/Futur Missile de Croisière), is a multi-national next generation missile programme launched by France and the United Kingdom in 2017 to succeed their jointly-developed Storm Shadow/SCALP as well as their respective Exocet and Harpoon anti-ship missiles, with Italy in the process of joining as of June 2023.
 

The CROSSBOW MINI 3 kW HEL was optimised to neutralise Group 1 and 2 drones with precision and operated for up to 12 hours on internal battery power. The CROSSBOW product line also included the 500 W Dazzler, which was available, and pre-orders were being taken for the higher-power 8 kW HEL system.
 

France Launches SCALP Mk2 Cruise Missile Development to Strengthen Long-Range Precision Strike​

According to French defense authorities, the upgraded missile will deliver improved guidance, targeting accuracy, and target acquisition performance, ensuring relevance against modern and future air defense environments.
 
still pretty heavily violates the spirit of the agreement.

India also has missiles with significantly greater range but can hardly buy the iskander or zircon(Not that it needs either considering indegenous alternatives alr exist or are in development) from russia can it?
Warheads under 500kg but Ukraine already has missiles with range over 300km anyway.