A new giant Ukrainian cruise missile is rumored to carry a 1,000-kg warhead for strikes 1,800 miles deep inside Russia

• Ukraine announced that a course missile, which is said to have a 1,000 kg war title, has started mass production.

• Flamingo is said to have a range of 1,800 miles and looks like a great traditional weapon.

• A missile of such and power can allow strikes to vital production centers in the depths of Russia.

According to the Defense Minister, Ukraine began to make a new cruise missile that was said to have a 1,000 kg war title with a range of 1,800 miles.

Denys Shmyhal, who was appointed as the Minister of Defense in July, at a public event on Monday Missing MissFlamingo, called, began.

The Minister refused to discuss the missile more and said that more details will be explained when the right time comes “.

However, the announcement comes the day after the other sources in Ukraine declare the specifications. Associated Press photographer Efrem Lukatsky released an image of a large missile, which he described as Flamingo on Monday.

Lukatsky’s Facebook article said that the photo was taken in a workshop directed by a Ukrainian defense company Fire Point on Thursday. He also wrote that the missile was 3,000 kilometers or roughly 1,800 miles.

After Lukatsky’s Facebook post, the Ukrainian newspaper mirror of the week uploaded a video that looked like a missile on Monday.

In the clip, Flamingo is seen as rail -mounted on a sloping platform before it is fired. The missile starts to climb immediately after the launch.

The mirror of the week reported that the video describes a Flamingo missile initiated at a Russian target and showed that the gun was already used in the war.

In another video, it is seen with fixed wings such as flamingo photographed by missile Lukatsky.

In a report published on Monday, Outlet said Fire Point tested Flamingo a few months ago and the missile entered mass production. The mirror of the week also reported that the missile can carry a maximum load of 1,150 kg of 1,150 kg.

Flamingo is very similar to another new missile

Flamingo has a striking similarity to the FP-5, which is produced by Milanion Group, a defense company in Abu Dhabi, headquartered in Abu Dhabi.

That year, the company signed an agreement with a Ukrainian company. Since the full -scale war began, Aakran also provides the mobile mortar system and Unreleased Place Vehicles To Kiev’s troops.

Milanion Group exhibited the FP-5 at a defense fair in Abu Dhabi in February. There, he said that the missile was equipped with anti-jamming technology and satellite navigation and could fly up to four hours at a rate of 559 miles / hour.

The company also said that the FP-5 can carry a load up to 1,000 kg and fly 1,800 miles.

This ability also means that the FP-5 is a huge missile with a 20-meter wing opening and 6,000 kg or 6.6-ton take-off weight. For a navigation missile, such a dimension and weight have not been seen in modern Western soldiers since the Early Cold War.

Compared to the US Tomahawk Cruise missile The departure weight has 1,600 kg and carries a 450 kg war title. And Russia Long-range KH-101 Cruise missileIt has approximately 2,400 kg of take -off weights that can fly up to 3,400 miles.

In the FP-5 brochure, Milanion Group said he could build more than 50 missiles per month.

Despite these similarities, the fact that Flamingo or FP-5 is directly related has not been confirmed. Milanion Group did not respond to the request for comments about Flamingo, which was sent by Business Insider outside of regular working hours.

Ukraine wants a long -range threat

1,800 miles range will allow Ukraine to hit Russia in potentially military production facilities. A new missile of such destructive power and range means that it can potentially threaten Russian centers for armor, infantry war vehicles, drones and artillery systems in the Ural Mountains, about 1,000 miles away from Ukraine.

So far, kiiv is mainly a slower one -way attack plane Cessna -style aircraft Attack Russian oil refineries and production facilities in and beyond the Moscow region. For example, the distance between Kyiv and Moscow is only 450 miles.

Yarabuga is a special economic zone It is about 800 miles from Ukraine, where Russia is believed to produce the Shahed drone version.

Ukraine has shown that it can produce locally missiles while in the war. Homemade Anti-Gemi missile, NeptuneIt is a weapon initiated by the subsonic truck used to sink Moskva, the flagship of the Russian Black Sea fleet.

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