Why you are not on donor list
Marcusmaximus?
I’m sure his base is happy with that.
Sounds like hopium. No fricking way PDJT will allow WWIII to start.
Sounds like hopium. No fricking way PDJT will allow WWIII to start.
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It's not a proxy war anymore.
This is insanity and just asking for trouble. What happened to Trump? He’s been looking unwell lately. There’s something going on behind the scenes.
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a Zeep…Zeep….ZEEPER.
Trump is being dumb, dumb, dumb...
Trump is using Tomahawk missiles as leverage on Russia. Ukraine will get 50-100 and burn through them like a kid setting off fireworks on the 4th of July.
The problem is supply & demand, there is a great demand for Tomahawks but very little supply.
Too bad they don’t grow on trees.
FAFO...
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
[August 21]
WIKI [FP-1 drone]
Conceived in mid-2022 by a team of former aerospace engineers and defence analysts, the FP-1 programme aimed to produce a low-cost, high-performance kamikaze UAV. Initial operational prototypes of the FP-1 drone flew in early 2024, demonstrating a loitering munition delivery system. Full-scale production commenced in October 2024 at covert facilities near Kyiv.
The FP-1 features a slender fuselage with a two-cylinder engine driving a propeller, a solid rocket booster for launching, and fixed straight wings. It carries a modular warhead weighing between 60 kg and 120 kg, selectable for fragmentation or shaped-charge effects. The airframe employs radar-absorbent materials to reduce detectability. Navigation relies on inertial systems augmented by satellite guidance, with electronic counter-countermeasure capabilities to resist jamming.
By mid-2025, Fire Point had scaled production from 30 to over 100 FP-1 units per day, reporting total manufacture of more than 5,000 drones. The UAV has been credited with striking ammunition depots, command posts, and air defence batteries at ranges exceeding 1,200 km. Analysts attribute Ukraine’s ability to disrupt rear-area logistics to the FP-1’s cost-effectiveness — estimated at US$55,000 per unit versus US$200,000 for comparable systems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FP-1_(unmanned_aerial_vehicle)
“With a payload of explosives weighing 60 kilograms (132 pounds), it[the FP-1] is responsible for 60% of strikes deep inside Russian territory, including hits on oil refineries and weapons depots, according to Terekh. These strikes have helped to slow Russia’s advance along the 1,000 kilometer-long (620 mile-long) front line in eastern Ukraine, where army units have reported a sharp decline in artillery fire.”
“Because defense companies are high-value targets for Russia, many operate underground or hidden within civilian centers to evade detection. Although they are guarded by air defenses, the strategy has the disadvantage of putting civilians at risk. Many Ukrainians have died in imprecise Russian attacks that were likely targeting weapons facilities.”
“On the day AP reporters visited the Fire Point factory, there were dozens of drones awaiting delivery. They would all be gone within 72 hours, shipped to the battlefield in inconspicuous cargo trucks.”
"Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg revealed that Trump had authorized long-range Ukrainian strikes inside Russia"
Incorrectly stated by Mr. Kellogg.
And, Tomahawks should not be issued.
And, Ukraine does not need assistance locating ground and naval targets, but help with locating aerial targets over Ukraine and NATO territories, is air defense and necessary - though NATO is ill-prepared.