Fire Point

Fire Point was founded in Kyiv in 2022, in the months after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, as one of a wave of new domestic defence firms set up to give the Armed Forces of Ukraine weapons that did not depend on permission from foreign capitals. The company is run by chief executive Yehor Skalyha and has kept an unusually low corporate profile for a manufacturer whose products have been striking targets deep inside Russia. It sits in the same Kyiv-centred cluster of wartime drone and missile builders as firms such as Skyeton and the FPV-drone maker Neros, but has moved faster than most into the long-range, strategic end of the catalogue.

The company’s product line is built around one-way attack drones and, more recently, a domestically produced cruise missile. The FP-1, unveiled in late 2024, is a long-range deep-strike drone with a published reach of around 1,600 kilometres — far enough from the Ukrainian border to put refineries, airfields and logistics nodes on the Volga and beyond within range. The heavier FP-2 followed in 2025 and entered serial production the same year. The headline system, however, is the FP-5 Flamingo: a cruise missile with a launch weight of roughly 6,000 kilograms, a 1,150-kilogram warhead and a quoted maximum range of 3,000 kilometres. It is the first long-range cruise missile that Ukraine has fielded from its own production lines, and Fire Point has signalled a successor in the same family, the FP-7, with public details still emerging.

Operationally, the FP-1 series and the Flamingo have been used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to conduct precision strikes inside Russian-held territory, including against fuel infrastructure and military bases that sit beyond the reach of most Western-supplied munitions. That role — domestic, deep, and not subject to a foreign veto — is the company’s main selling point to its only declared customer, the Ukrainian state. Public reporting around the Flamingo has emphasised its scale: a missile in the same weight class as legacy Soviet land-attack systems, produced inside a country at war and designed to be replicated at volume.

As a privately held wartime manufacturer, Fire Point does not disclose headcount, revenue or investor structure, and the Ukrainian government has been careful about publishing production figures for systems that are actively being used against Russian targets. What is visible from open sources is a rapid expansion of the catalogue — from the FP-1 in 2024 to the FP-2, the Flamingo and the announced FP-7 within roughly two years — and an evident appetite from Kyiv to keep funding the line.

The company has not been free of controversy. Ukrainian media and parliamentary critics have raised questions about how Fire Point won its contracts so quickly, the pricing of the Flamingo, and the verifiability of its declared performance figures, in a procurement environment where the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine has been increasingly active. Fire Point has rejected the accusations and pointed to combat use of the systems as evidence that the products are real.

Within the wartime Ukrainian defence-industrial base, Fire Point occupies a particular niche: not an FPV-drone workshop and not a legacy state design bureau, but a young private firm that has gone straight to strategic-range strike. Whether it can hold that position once the war’s tempo changes — and once Western missile makers compete for the same Ukrainian budget — is the open question around it.