The American news agency Associated Press (AP) was able to photograph the new Ukrainian cruise missile “Flamingo” on a production site in Fire Point, a major player in the Ukrainian defense industry.
Small revolution, this weapon would be entirely designed on the Ukrainian national territory and would therefore not depend on the goodwill of Americans and Europeans to be delivered.
Little information has so far been leaked on this new armament. The journalist Efrem Lukatsky, author of the photo, specifies that the missile has a range of 3,000 km.
A missile close to the FP-5
“The Ukrainian flamingo is very much like the FP-5 missile of the Milanion group (United Kingdom). The latter has the same configuration at the level of the engine, the wings, the ramp”, describe our colleagues from the Air & Cosmos media.
Based on the available public data from the British missile, it can be estimated that the maximum speed of the “Flamingo” could be 950 km/h, that it could fly more than 5 km high and would have a 6 -meter wingspan.
As the specialized media explains, the timing of this photo is not trivial. She came out a few hours before the Ukrainian president for Washington and could give her an additional weight in his negotiations with Donald Trump.
With the cessation of arms deliveries to Ukraine by Donald Trump-measurement certainly raised since then- and the insufficiency of Western aid regularly denounced by Zelensky, kyiv seems to want to find a certain strategic autonomy.
The Ukrainian president notably said in April that 40% of the weapons used on the Ukraine front were local manufacturing. A figure that could even climb 95% for drones, according to defense vice-minister Valerii Churkin.
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