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Ukraine’s FP-5 ‘Flamingo’ Enters Serial Production With Claimed 3,000-Kilometer Reach

Engine supply constraints could cap output despite goals to scale production sharply by year-end.

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Overview

  • Fire Point says it is producing about one Flamingo missile per day and aims for more than 200 per month by year-end, identifying engine availability as the main bottleneck.
  • The company lists a range of roughly 3,000 kilometres, a 1,150 kilogram warhead, a 6,000 kilogram launch weight, and a top speed near 950 km/h.
  • Guidance is described as GPS-assisted inertial navigation with an estimated accuracy around 14 metres, and propulsion comes from a Motor Sich AI-25TL turbofan.
  • Executives say development took under nine months from concept to first battlefield tests, and recent footage shows rail-trailer launches with Ukrainian reports suggesting use inside Russia.
  • President Volodymyr Zelensky says Ukraine will have “many more” of the missiles by December, while Russia’s Tass questions the design’s origin and Fire Point rejects that claim.