Media: Ukraine Has Developed A Rocket Reaching The Urals In Record Time
16- 22.08.2025, 15:28
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Just in time for Trump's call to hit Russia.
The first Ukrainian-made long-range missile of its own production can fly 3,000 kilometers, which means it can reach objects on almost the entire European territory of Russia. Its presentation coincided with efforts by Kiev's Western allies to develop security guarantees to protect Ukraine after the war ends. That war is "very hard" to win if you don't fire on the interventionist, Donald Trump said after Moscow refused to back guarantees for Ukraine and quickly set up a meeting between Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Zelensky.
"We didn't want to make this information public, but it looks like the time has come. "Flamingo is a long-range cruise missile capable of carrying a 1,150 kg warhead and flying 3,000 km into Russia," Politico Irina Terekh, Fire Point's general and technical director, told Politico. She said it took less than nine months to develop and produce, from idea to the first successful battlefield tests. "I won't tell you the exact speed, but it's faster than any other missile we have right now," Terekh added.
The Associated Press reported the first photos of the missile this week, and Zelensky called it "the most successful missile we have." Mass production of the Flamingo will begin by the end of December or early January in February, he added. Fire Point told the AP that it is now producing one missile per day, and expects to begin production of at least seven by October (making 2,555 per year).
If Fire Point manages to reach such figures, Ukraine may get a new and very valuable tool for more destructive than now strikes on key targets in Russia, experts of the specialized portal The War Zone wrote after analyzing the photos and data that have appeared:
[The] rocket-propelled jet propulsion used in the Flamingo offers advantages in speed and survivability when penetrating deep into Russian territory, especially compared to the converted light aircraft and other long-range drones that Ukraine now relies on for strikes of this kind. The claimed size of the warhead, combined with the speed of the jet engine, will also give the missile the ability to penetrate more rugged objects, which will open up [for strikes] a whole new set of targets.
Fire Point says the FP-1 drones it manufactures are now responsible for 60 percent of long-range strikes against Russia. But they have a maximum range of 1,600 kilometers and a warhead weight of just 60 kilograms.
The Flamingo comes on alert at a time when President Trump has made a major effort to negotiate an end to the war. To that end, he even met in Alaska with Putin. But the timing of the meeting between the presidents of Russia and Ukraine, as well as measures to ensure the latter's post-war security, then announced by Trump, met with stiff opposition from Moscow. Thus, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia must participate in the guarantees (i.e. be able to block military aid to Ukraine in case of its own repeated attack), and without this, no agreement is possible.
Afterwards, Trump wrote on his Truth Social network with the words "Interesting times ahead!!!!": "It is very difficult, if not impossible, to win a war without attacking the intervening country. It's like a great team in sports that has a fantastic defense but is not allowed to play offense. There is no chance of winning! So it is with Ukraine and Russia. The rotten and monstrously incompetent Joe Biden didn't allow Ukraine to retaliate with a hit on a hit, only to defend. What came out of it?".
Russia has already tried to present the Ukrainian results as negligible. TASS announced through an expert (he was Alexander Stepanov from the Institute of Law and National Security of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration) that Fire Point did not develop the Flamingo itself, but allegedly used the FP-5 missile of the UAE-based Milanion Group, with which it already cooperates. According to Stepanov, this indicates that "the real military-technical production potential in Ukraine has been virtually eliminated by the Russian Armed Forces' systemic combined strikes using precision systems and attack drones."
The War Zone looks at the situation differently: "If Fire Point manages to achieve at least its current [production] target of seven missiles per day, it could significantly add to Ukraine's arsenal. In addition to utilizing its own capabilities, Fire Point could turn to foreign partners to expand its Flamingo production capabilities, if it is not already doing so in cooperation with Milanion."
The War Zone also cites for comparison the tactical and technical characteristics of Milanion's missile: maximum speed - up to 950 km/h, wingspan - 6 meters, maximum weight - 6,000 kg.
The missile, which has already been launched at Russian facilities, is entirely Ukrainian-made, Terekh insists:
We watched the Russian reaction to our first missions, and I can say that the more successful the mission was, the more they tried to drown out all the resonance around it.
The unusual name and the original color of the missile (the nose, which houses the warhead, was painted pink) was a joke by the employees, or rather female employees of Fire Point, who thus emphasized their role in the war. "Our first missiles were pink; they did all their testing in pink, but then we had to change the color because of military camouflage requirements ... It's such a feminine touch," Terech told Politico. - A missile that can fly 3,000 kilometers doesn't need a scary name. The main task of a missile is to be effective."
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