The Navy's $22.9 billion, seven-year Tomahawk award gives Raytheon the certainty to build toward 1,000 missiles a year. It does not buy back the 1,000-plus fired at Iran: rocket-motor lead times set the clock, while Ukraine's Fire Point builds 100 cheaper cruise missiles a month.
Kyiv's homegrown FP-5 Flamingo reached 400 kilometers to strike Titan-Barrikady, the factory that builds the launchers for Russia's Iskander, Yars and Topol-M missiles.
Combat-proven Ukrainian strike weapons are becoming NATO's shortcut around a deep-strike gap that Europe's own programs will not close until the 2030s.
Kyiv's homegrown cruise missile returned to Cheboksary and hit VNIIR-Progress, the sanctioned producer of Kometa anti-jamming antennas that steer Russia's drones, missiles and glide bombs through Ukrainian jamming.
Syrskyi's new Rocket Forces and Artillery concept commits Ukraine to mass-producing its own missiles out to 2,000 km. The real target is dependence on weapons Kyiv cannot build, buy freely, or fire without permission.