FP-5 Flamingo
FP-5 «Фламінго»
Overview
The FP-5 Flamingo is a Ukrainian long-range ground-launched cruise missile made by Fire Point. According to the manufacturer, it delivers a payload of up to 1,200 kg over up to 3,000 km. The missile was shown publicly in August 2025 and first used in combat that same month.
History
The FP-5 was developed by the Ukrainian company Fire Point, which had earlier built the long-range FP-1 drone. According to the company's technical director Iryna Terekh, it took less than nine months from idea to the first successful field tests. The first test articles were painted pink, and according to Politico the warhead section of production missiles is still pink — hence the name Flamingo.
The Associated Press published the first photos of the missile on 17 August 2025, after a test launch. On 20 August 2025 President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that serial production had begun, and at the end of that month the missile was first used in combat.
Design and specifications
The Flamingo is a subsonic cruise missile with a composite airframe. Its sustainer engine is the AI-25 turbofan, previously used on L-39 jet trainers. The missile takes off from a ground launcher with a booster; the system is carried on a truck that looks like ordinary transport, and launch preparation takes about 20 minutes.
According to the manufacturer, the missile carries a payload of up to 1,200 kg over up to 3,000 km. Cruise speed is 650–700 km/h and maximum speed 950 km/h, flight altitude ranges from 20 m to 10 km, and flight time is up to four hours. Maximum takeoff weight is 6,000 kg and the wingspan is 7 m. The heavy warhead is designed, among other things, to destroy reinforced-concrete structures. Guidance uses satellite and inertial navigation against targets with known coordinates.
Production and cost
In August 2025 Fire Point was producing about one missile per day and planned to scale up. In July 2026 the company's CEO Iryna Terekh said output had reached around 100 missiles per month and that each missile costs just under $600,000 — about six times less than a US Tomahawk.
Fire Point draws AI-25 engines from existing stocks: more than 6,000 were built in Soviet times. To stop depending on that supply, the company is developing its own turbojet engine: in July 2026 it was assembling the first 10 test units and plans a gradual switch. Solid fuel for the boosters is to come from the company's plant in Denmark, whose launch has been postponed to the end of 2027.
Combat use
The first known combat use was a strike in late August 2025 on an FSB facility near Armyansk in Crimea, where hovercraft were damaged. In October 2025 Volodymyr Zelensky said the missile had been used nine times. In February 2026 Flamingos were used against an arsenal near Kotluban in Volgograd Oblast and the Votkinsk plant in Udmurtia, about 1,400 km from Ukraine's border.
On 24 July 2026 the missiles hit the Avitek plant in Kirov, and on the night of 15 August 2026 the Progress Rocket Space Centre in Samara, which Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed. Not every launch reaches its target: Russian air defenses intercept some of the missiles.
Video archive
Sources
Fire Point: FP-5 Flamingo (manufacturer specifications) ↗
Ukrinform: Politico shows Flamingo launch footage ↗
Militarnyi: Zelensky says Flamingo used nine times ↗
UNITED24 Media: Flamingo costs six times less than a Tomahawk ↗
Militarnyi: first test samples of an indigenous engine for Flamingo ↗
Oboronka: Flamingo launches against the Kotluban arsenal ↗
NV: Flamingo launch video after the Udmurtia strike ↗
Ukranews: Flamingo launch video, Avitek plant strike ↗
Kyiv Independent: Flamingo strike on the Progress centre in Samara ↗