One plant makes the seats that save Russian pilots—Ukraine’s Flamingo missile torched it 1,200 km from home
The Avitek factory is the country's sole serial producer of escape seats for every fighter and attack aircraft in the fleet.
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Ukraine’s top missile designer: modern war is won by whoever experiments with weapons faster
Fire Point's Denys Shtilerman says Russia's engineering school still follows the Soviet template of designing for years before testing.
Ukraine is ten days into campaign to pressure Moscow toward peace: Russia’s Baltic oil gateway took hit overnight
Ukrainian overnight strikes reportedly hit a St. Petersburg oil terminal, with Flamingo missiles seen over Chuvashia.
Germany’s Diehl in talks to produce Ukraine’s Flamingo cruise missile on German soil
CEO Helmut Rauch announced a series of meetings with Ukrainian maker Fire Point in the coming weeks and called the company "optimistic and positive" about cooperation, says FT.
Satellite imagery reveals Flamingo missile damage at Russian plant making Shahed navigation antennas
The imagery shows the Ukrainian cruise missile sliced into the front of the main workshop at VNIIR-Progress in Cheboksary, while two Liutyi drones hit a second building
Europe spent two years waiting for US Tomahawks. Ukraine spent them building its own.
Trump pulled the Tomahawks. Yet Kyiv has opened the export door.
Ukraine should not advertise its new ballistic missiles until factories can mass-produce them, ex-security officer says
"We're standing in the same line with the Russians" with their failed Armata tank, Ivan Stupak noted.
Everyone doubted Ukraine’s Flamingo missile. It just blew a hole in a major Russian missile factory
The Flamingo cruise missile was supposed to intensify Ukraine's deep strikes on Russian industry. Months late, it may finally be happening.
Ukraine’s Flamingo missiles strike Russia twice in one week; rocket arsenal hit
The Flamingo is mired in controversy — can successful strikes redeem its reputation?
Flamingo vs Oreshnik: Ukraine’s GenStaff claims damage to Russia’s Oreshnik launch site
The attack occurred on 5 February.
Ukraine fired a barrage of Flamingo missiles at Russia’s Oreshnik missile base—and apparently missed
Ukraine's Flamingo cruise missiles are back in action in small numbers. But it seems they missed a very valuable target.
Is the Flamingo missile a real weapon, or just marketing?
There are worrying signs that Ukraine's Flamingo cruise missile is mostly hype.
Mystery in Donetsk: did Ukraine just launch a secret cruise missile?
Ukraine launched a barrage of drones and missiles to slow Russian reinforcements massing in Donetsk. Did the raid reveal a new missile?
Ukraine establishes missile plant in Denmark near F-35 base for 3,000-km strikes
European NATO allies accelerate weapons manufacturing partnerships with Ukraine as diminishing US support forces unprecedented defense industrial cooperation across the continent.
This American-made missile is Ukraine’s cheap refinery smasher
Ukraine needs harder-hitting deep-strike munitions. Lots of them. The American ERAM might be just the thing.
Ukraine’s missiles could cut off the $ 9 billion Putin uses to pay soldiers
Russia pays new soldiers bonuses worth $4,500 each. Strikes cutting 17% of refining output threaten the funds that cover them.
Ukraine to start mass production of 3,000 km Flamingo missile, Zelenskyy says
The long-range weapon has already completed tests and could enter large-scale manufacturing by early 2026.
It carries 1,150 kg, flies 3,000 km, and it’s called Flamingo—Ukraine’s new cruise missile enters combat (video)
FirePoint reportedly conducted successful tests of the missile a few months ago, after which the missile entered serial production.