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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Cool. “Zelensky’s up, Putin’s down!’’.
“Putin’s up, Zelensky’s down!’’.
Good. Vlad’s response will be sensational….he may even take the gloves off.
Anything that big has a big radar cross section, unless the Ukes got some real recent tech.
They’re all idiots. You never let your opponent know your capabilities, either existing or planned.
More Ukraine nonsense
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.
That’s why American weapons projects are closely guarded, highly classified and not announced before implementation.
Is it propelled by a cheap pulse-jet?
Are they writing messages on the sides of the missiles?
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."
Then it was already "in production".
I’m afraid you should be including Trump in that group.
You get what you started.
You really believe that, maybe he will unleash the big wheel brigade 😎
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.
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