FP-5 Flamingo

The FP-5 Flamingo is the largest cruise missile yet produced by Ukraine — a subsonic, ground-launched, 3,000 km-range strike weapon with a 1,150 kg warhead, manufactured by Fire Point in Kyiv. Public production started in 2024; through 2025 the platform became Ukraine’s longest-reach domestic strike capability.

The 1,150 kg warhead is the headline number. A Western Tomahawk-class cruise missile carries a 450 kg warhead; the Shahed-136 / Geran-2 long-range strike drone that Russia has used extensively against Ukrainian infrastructure carries 30-50 kg. The Flamingo’s payload puts genuinely hardened targets — large refineries, command-and-control bunkers, ammunition-storage facilities — into the engagement envelope.

The strategic point of the platform is sovereignty. Ukraine’s Western-supplied long-range strike systems — Storm Shadow / SCALP, ATACMS, JASSM-ER — have all come with operator-side restrictions on range and target set imposed by the supplying country. A domestically-produced 3,000 km missile means the Ukrainian general staff alone decides what is struck. Ukrainian-side reporting through 2025 attributed several deep-Russia strikes to the Flamingo, including hits on energy infrastructure beyond the previous reach of confirmed Ukrainian strike weapons.

Fire Point itself was founded in 2022 in response to the Russian invasion and has scaled the FP-1 (1,600 km long-range drone), FP-2, FP-5 Flamingo, and FP-7 in rapid succession. The company sits at the centre of the broader Ukrainian doctrine that emerged through 2024-2025: build cheap, build domestic, and target Russia’s rear-area logistics rather than match it on the front line.