“A factory error left early FP-5 cruise missiles pink, leading Fire Point to nickname it “Flamingo” — a name that stuck.” The company’s director, Iryna Terekh, an architect before the war, liked the color though, so she kept it for the nose. “Woman’s touch in missiles,” said Terekh.
When she was hired, the goal was to produce 30 FP-1 drones a month. Fire Point now claims to be producing up to 100 per day. And somehow managing to do all that for just $55,000 a piece. It has many wondering how Ukraine can do all this for practically nothing, and the FP-5 at a fraction of the price of a similarly specced US-made Tomahawk missiles, which cost over $2 million each
Source: Politico
KYIV — While Ukraine’s allies twist themselves into knots over how to provide it with security guarantees, Kyiv is moving ahead with its own way of keeping Russia at bay — a new cruise missile able to hit all of European Russia carrying a massive warhead weighing more than a ton.
That’s the Flamingo FP-5 missile, developed by Ukraine’s Fire Point defense company — a fast-growing producer of the combat drones that have become a key weapon in the war against Russia.
