FP-5 Flamingo

Ukraine's homegrown heavy cruise missile, built to strike deep inside Russia with a one-tonne warhead at a fraction of the cost of Western equivalents — a "big, cheap, and numerous" engineering gamble that has already blown up ammunition bunkers and missile factories.

Overview

The FP-5 Flamingo (Фламінго) is a Ukrainian ground-launched, long-range cruise missile developed by the post-2022 defence startup Fire Point. It carries a claimed ~1,150 kg warhead out to a manufacturer-stated range of 3,000 km, intentionally built as a cheap, mass-producible weapon to bring the whole of European Russia within reach — including 90% of Russia’s arms-manufacturing capacity, according to Ukrainian analysis Wikipedia. The missile’s radical cost engineering — recycled trainer-jet engines, a simple fiberglass airframe, and GNSS-only guidance — puts its unit price at roughly half a million dollars, a fraction of a Tomahawk. After a secret development programme, the Flamingo was publicly revealed by Associated Press factory access in August 2025 and entered combat weeks later; by mid-2026 it had struck targets as distant as Cheboksary and Votkinsk, although its accuracy and mass-production claims remain under intense scrutiny Covert Shores AP.

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