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A new giant Ukrainian cruise missile is rumored to carry a 1,000-kg warhead for strikes 1,800 miles deep inside Russia
Business Insider ^ | Aug 19, 2025 | Matthew Loh

Posted on 08/31/2025 4:03:33 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Ukraine has started making a new cruise missile said to be capable of carrying a 1,000 kg warhead with a range of 1,800 miles, according to its defense minister.

Denys Shmyhal, who was appointed as defense minister in July, said at a public event on Monday that serial production of the missile, dubbed the Flamingo, had begun.

The minister declined to discuss the missile further, saying that more details would be disclosed "when the right time comes."

But his announcement comes a day after other sources in Ukraine reported on its specifications. Efrem Lukatsky, an Associated Press photographer, published an image on Monday of a large missile that he identified as the Flamingo.

Lukatsky's Facebook post said the photo was taken on Thursday at a workshop run by Fire Point, a Ukrainian defense company. He also wrote that the missile had a range of 3,000 kilometers, or roughly 1,800 miles.

After Lukatsky's Facebook post, the Ukrainian newspaper Mirror of the Week uploaded a video on Monday of what appears to be the missile being launched from an open field.

In the clip, the Flamingo is seen rail-mounted on a canted platform before it is fired. The missile starts climbing upward almost immediately after launch.

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1 posted on 08/31/2025 4:03:33 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Cool. “Zelensky’s up, Putin’s down!’’.

“Putin’s up, Zelensky’s down!’’.


2 posted on 08/31/2025 4:08:48 PM PDT by jmacusa ( Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Good. Vlad’s response will be sensational….he may even take the gloves off.


3 posted on 08/31/2025 4:10:34 PM PDT by delta7
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To: jmacusa

Anything that big has a big radar cross section, unless the Ukes got some real recent tech.


4 posted on 08/31/2025 4:10:35 PM PDT by Blueflag (To not carry is to choose to be defenseless.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Keep poking that bear.


5 posted on 08/31/2025 4:11:32 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of racism, anger, hate and violence.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

They’re all idiots. You never let your opponent know your capabilities, either existing or planned.


6 posted on 08/31/2025 4:13:29 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: MinorityRepublican

More Ukraine nonsense


7 posted on 08/31/2025 4:13:53 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Blueflag

1,800 miles is some distance.

I live in southern NJ and I’d say it’s roughly 1,300 miles to Florida.

This thing is supposed to go some 500 miles farther than that?

Wow.


8 posted on 08/31/2025 4:15:25 PM PDT by jmacusa ( Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

That’s why American weapons projects are closely guarded, highly classified and not announced before implementation.


9 posted on 08/31/2025 4:17:08 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Is it propelled by a cheap pulse-jet?


10 posted on 08/31/2025 4:19:27 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: MinorityRepublican

Are they writing messages on the sides of the missiles?

https://www.google.com/search?q=images+dr.strangelove+messages+on+bombs&sca_esv=324b0967246b8c39&udm=2&biw=1052&bih=506&ei=Odi0aN-8Ga2-p84


11 posted on 08/31/2025 4:20:31 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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--- "You never let your opponent know your capabilities, either existing or planned."

You do, if there is another goal, i.e. send investment money. After all, in the middle of a war the company mentioned was doing a 'show and tell' in Abu Dhabi.

It's a fine article with "...rumored...." and "said to be" and my favorite, "might be."

12 posted on 08/31/2025 4:21:49 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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13 posted on 08/31/2025 4:24:05 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: philman_36
It is “Business Insider” after all.
14 posted on 08/31/2025 4:25:02 PM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time
After all, in the middle of a war the company mentioned was doing a 'show and tell' in Abu Dhabi.

Then it was already "in production".

15 posted on 08/31/2025 4:31:04 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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I’m afraid you should be including Trump in that group.


17 posted on 08/31/2025 4:38:57 PM PDT by Segovia (https://townhall.com/columnists/kevinmccullough/2025/07/06/fossil-fooled-lives-vs-lies-n2659950)
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To: MinorityRepublican

You get what you started.


18 posted on 08/31/2025 4:39:01 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: delta7

You really believe that, maybe he will unleash the big wheel brigade 😎


19 posted on 08/31/2025 4:40:44 PM PDT by blitz128
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To: blitz128

Israel is pretty good at developing weapons. Necessity being the mother of invention.
I’m sure Ukraine’s got some brains in their War department.


20 posted on 08/31/2025 4:42:15 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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