Kyiv, Ukraine – Ukraine has unveiled a new missile that is the fastest in its missile arsenal, capable of hitting targets deep inside Russia.
The cruise missile, called the Flamingo FP-5, can carry a warhead weighing more than one ton and fly a distance exceeding 3,000 km.
The missile was fully developed in Ukraine and produced by the Ukrainian defense company Firepoint.
It took 9 months to develop it from idea to first battlefield testing.
The Russian news agency TASS published a report in which it downplayed the missile.
It claimed it was based on a British design, but Ukraine denied this.
Sources confirmed that the missile has entered serial production at a rate of approximately 200 missiles per month.
“By September we will have more of them,” the Ukrainian president said last Wednesday.
“We will not disclose additional details until we can use hundreds of them,” he added.
US President Donald Trump has been more open to the idea of Ukraine attacking deep inside Russia.
“It is very difficult, if not impossible, to win the war without attacking my opposing country,” he wrote on his platform.
“It’s like a great sports team with a great defense, but they can’t attack,” he added.
War missiles such as Flamingo can cause great destruction.
Last June, a Ukrainian strike with an R-360 Neptune missile with a 150 kg warhead caused a fire at a Russian oil refinery that lasted for three days.
