KYIV — While Ukraine's allies twist themselves into knots over how to provide it with security guarantees, Kyiv is moving ahead with its own way of keeping Russia at bay — a new cruise missile able to hit all of European Russia carrying a massive warhead weighing more than a ton. That's the Flamingo FP-5 missile, developed by Ukraine's Fire Point defense company — a fast-growing producer of the combat drones that have become a key weapon in the war against Russia. The unusual name and the missile's original color — a bright pink tip where the warhead is housed — were an internal company joke on the unheralded role of women in the male-dominated world of weapons and war.
Author: Ed Scarce
Published at: 2025-08-23 20:35:49
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