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Posted on 09/29/2025 5:11:39 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Vladimir Putin is set to make a "major speech" in what the Kremlin is promising to be an "interesting week". The announcement comes following remarks by the US Vice President J D Vance on Friday, in which he said Donald Trump was considering a request to supply Ukraine with long-range Tomahawk missiles.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov dropped the cryptic message in an interview on Sunday with the Russian journalist Pavel Zarubin. "The President will deliver a fairly major speech next week," he said. "We will announce what it will be about, as well as exactly when and where. But the week will be interesting."
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He's sending military assistance to Venezuela?
Annexing Belarus?
Putin needs to call it a day. That war cannot be won by Russia (or Ukraine), and what is happening is a huge cost in life, material, and potential. The last one is an interesting point considering both countries are really struggling from a demographic perspective, and will likely never recover. They’re both below replacement rate, and this was before the butchers bill that had been happening for almost four years now, and then include to that all those Russians and Ukrainian who left and will never come back.
Bad war, and it needs to stop. Both leaders need to get to the negotiating table, Russia needs to leave, and they should both listen to President DJT and end the damned thing.
One question though: is it possible for Ukraine to effectively target long-range Tomahawk cruise missile strikes without US/NATO help?
The TERCOM and DSMAC data appear to suspiciously require direct US targeting.
I saw similar questions around h to ensure of HIMARS, but there is a (real) difference between a 45mile HIMARS and a 1,500+ mile Tomahawk.
I suspect it’s just President Trump working on rattling Russia (I sincerely doubt they would transfer Tomahawks to Ukraine), but all the same it is quite interesting.
More defenestrations?
He’s going to say:
A. That Belarus and Russia are a single nation
B. He is sending military assistance to Venezuela
C. He is stating that US missiles land in Russia it’s Nuclear war.
D. He is going to have a ceasefire and negotiate with Ukraine
E. A,B&C
F. All of the above.
Vlad the invader has put Russia in a really bad position. I don’t think he can negotiate because he will be killed by the pro-war group. He can threaten Nuclear War, but Trump will just supply ‘components’ of long range missiles and the Ukrainians will build the ‘shells’. He can send ‘assistance’ to Venezuela, but it won’t help them deliver drugs and the US doesn’t want to invade anyway. Belarus and Russia can become a single nation, but then Belarus becomes a giant target for Ukraine. So I am going with C.
;^)
“All of Ukraine are belong to us”
US Vice President J D Vance on Friday, in which he said Donald Trump was considering a request to supply Ukraine with long-range Tomahawk missiles.
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So Putin will either make even bigger threats at Trump warning him to not send tomahawks or he will say conciliatory things that might ward off more tomahawks.
Oooh! I imagine that Donald Trump is now shaking in his boots.
What scary threat will Vlad make this time, that he will never act upon because he knows he’d be the loser in any type of war against America and NATO.
What??? Jen is getting married???!!! But, but Jen, I thought we had something, you and I....
The number of tomahawks just doubled.
The Flamingo missile has a range of 1860 miles, and it is made in the Ukraine. How accurate, I cannot say.
WIKI [Tomahawk]
Unit cost
$1.87 million (FY2017) (Block IV)
$2 million (FY2022) (Block V)
Export cost: $4 million (FY2023)
Specifications
Mass 2,900 lb (1,300 kg), 3,500 lb (1,600 kg) with booster
Length
18 ft 3 in (5.56 m) without booster;
20 ft 6 in (6.25 m) with booster
Diameter 20.4 in (0.52 m)
Wingspan 8 ft 9 in (2.67 m)
Warhead
Nuclear: W80 warhead (yield 5 to 200 kilotonnes of TNT (21 to 837 TJ)) (retired)
Conventional: 1,000 pounds (450 kg) high explosive or submunition dispenser with BLU-97/B Combined Effects Bomb or PBXN
Detonation mechanism
FMU-148 since TLAM Block III, others for special applications
Engine Williams International F107-WR-402 turbofan
using TH-dimer fuel and a solid-fuel rocket booster
Operational range
Block II TLAM-N – 1,350 nmi (1,550 mi; 2,500 km)
Block III TLAM-C, Block IV TLAM-E – 900 nmi (1,000 mi; 1,700 km)
Block III TLAM-D – 700 nmi (810 mi; 1,300 km)
Block IV – 864 nmi (994 mi; 1,600 km)
Block Vb – >900 nmi (>1036 mi; >1666 km) (exact range is classified)
RGM/UGM-109B TASM – 250 miles, 460 km
Flight altitude 98–164 ft (30–50 m) AGL
Maximum speed Subsonic; ~Mach 0.74. about 570 mph (500 kn; 920 km/h)
Guidance system
GPS, INS, TERCOM, DSMAC, active radar homing (RGM/UGM-109B)
Launch platform
Mark 41 Vertical Launching System
Torpedo tubes
Surface ships
Submarines
TELs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomahawk_missile
Think of it as a more accurate, quieter and expensive V-1.
Am I the only one who started reading the article about chocolate and immediately forgot the subject of the thread I was on? I was all ready to comment on chocolate and then realized, “Oh yeah, Ukraine.” Maybe that means I need that dose of chocolate every day.
At least they're not conquered by the "barbarians" which is what is happening in Western Europe.
A. That Belarus and Russia are a single nation
B. He is sending military assistance to Venezuela
C. He is stating that US missiles land in Russia it’s Nuclear war.
D. He is going to have a ceasefire and negotiate with Ukraine
E. A,B&C
F. All of the above.
Can't be "A". Vlad started the war against Ukraine because he wouldn't tolerate having a shared border with NATO member state. "Unifying" with Belarus would do just this by establishing a common border with (NATO member) Poland.
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WIKI [Flamingo]
The missile has a fixed straight wing and a turbofan jet engine mounted above the fuselage. This gives it a superficial resemblance to the V-1 flying bomb and the Ukrainian-built Soviet Tu-141 and Tu-143 reconnaissance drones, although the V1 used a pulsejet and the Tu-141 and Tu-143 were designed with engines mounted inside the main fuselage. The rear of the fuselage has four flight control surfaces in an X-configuration. The fuselage is primarily built from radar transparent composite materials (fiberglass), whilst the engine nacelle is built from metal in order to withstand high temperatures. The jet engine appears to be the Ivchenko AI-25 produced by Ukrainian manufacturer Motor Sich and historically used for the Aero L-39 Albatros. The engine is significantly larger than those found in comparable cruise missiles.
Flamingo’s warhead is claimed to be 2.5 times the weight of the warhead of the American Tomahawk Block V cruise missile, with a stated weight of 1,150 kg (2,540 lb). According to a Dutch military expert interviewed by UkrInform, Flamingo is a classic aerial bomb converted into a cruise missile by adding a jet engine, fuselage, and wings. The warhead, shown in pictures with the nose cone removed, may be a repurposed FAB-1500 bomb, but based on the warhead’s size the 1,500 kg (3,300 lb) FAB-1500 seems unlikely, with a more likely bomb being either a 2,039-pound (925 kg) Mark 84 high-explosive bomb or a same-weight BLU-109/B bunker buster. If the missile uses a conventional gravity bomb, the weight of the warhead would be 925 kg (2,039 lb) but the explosive filler would only be 430 kg (950 lb), more in line with comparable cruise missile systems. The Flamingo’s claimed range is approximately double the unclassified range of the Tomahawk Block V, allowing it to hit targets anywhere in the European part of Russia and as far as Novosibirsk.
Unlike its Western counterparts, the Flamingo lacks complex visual guidance systems (TERCOM, DSMAC) but still promises a similar speed (900 km/h). The primary means of navigation is by satellite navigation using a jamming-resistant, controlled reception pattern antenna layout. Claimed accuracy is a CEP of 14 m (46 ft) at any range and in ideal conditions. The simplified design is intended to speed production.
Fire Point announced in September 2025 that it had increased production of its Flamingo cruise missile from 30 units per month in August to 50 units per month, with plans to reach seven missiles per day by the end of the year.
In September 2025 the Danish government announced that a subsidiary of Fire Point will start production of solid rocket fuel for the Flamingo in Denmark from 1 December 2025. Denmark temporarily suspended 20 laws and regulations to open the plant.
Fire Point had purchased a large number of Ivchenko AI-25 from various stockpiles. These engines had an engine or flight time of some 10 hours given the engines aren’t being used in jet aircraft - restoring them not to full usage but enough for a Flamingo missile’s flight time of three and a half hours. Previous media reports said that the engines had been made by Motor Sich. However, Fire Point claimed that they had found “thousands of such engines” at various landfills in Ukraine. These engines, in order to keep costs down, have had the titanium parts replaced by “cheaper and easier-to-produce alternatives” to make them flightworthy. Engines can also be taken from the some six thousand of these engines were manufactured and still in use in aircraft like the L-39 Albatross and Hongdu JL-8 jet trainers across “post-Soviet countries, Asia, and Africa”. Fire Point has also established its own plant to produce engines for the missiles, whether this is the Ivchenko AI-25 under licence or not is unclear.
The warhead is also something that Fire Point doesn’t manufacture. The current warhead is said to “pierce thick concrete” and can go some ten meters of underground, there is a cluster warhead in the works plus “many other types (of warhead)” in development.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FP-5_Flamingo
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