{"id":1283513,"date":"2025-08-21T21:12:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T18:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraine-received-a-new-flamingo-missile-how-will-this-affect-the-course-of-the-war\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T21:12:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T18:12:28","slug":"ukraine-received-a-new-flamingo-missile-how-will-this-affect-the-course-of-the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/ukraine-received-a-new-flamingo-missile-how-will-this-affect-the-course-of-the-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine received a new \u201cFlamingo\u201d missile: how will this affect the course of the war?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The new Ukrainian Flamingo missile, which can carry up to a thousand kilograms of explosives to a distance of up to 3,000 kilometers, has its pros and cons. It is difficult to shoot down by ground-based air defenses, but it can be an easy target for aircraft.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This opinion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0WFeKjD5oUk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was expressed<\/a> on the air of &#8220;Pryamy&#8221; by military analyst Oleksiy Hetman.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Is it a ballistic missile or a cruise missile? It&#8217;s hard to understand now. It can carry up to a thousand kilograms of explosives, flies three thousand kilometers. There is a jet engine installed on top. And it is big &#8211; the wingspan is 6 meters. That is, it is a seriously large missile. There are pluses and minuses. The pluses are that it can fly far, that it can carry large explosives. The minuses are that it is not as fast as we would like. Secondly, it is large in size,&#8221; Hetman said.<\/p>\n<p> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0WFeKjD5oUk<\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/ukraine-is-preparing-mass-production-of-flamingo-missiles-unique-footage-from-the-factory\/\">Ukraine is preparing mass production of Flamingo missiles: unique footage from the factory<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p> At the same time, he noted that there are many questions about the Flamingo, because despite the fact that this missile is quite difficult to shoot down by ground-based air defense systems, it can become a fairly comfortable target for aircraft. Although in general it is very good that Ukraine is developing such weapons, the military analyst emphasized.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;The fact that it exists is very good. The shortcomings, which are obviously obvious, are also understandable. But making a missile the most modern quickly is extremely difficult. I think it will be modernized. If the tests are passed, we will see what shortcomings it had. Usually, weapons are improved very quickly during combat operations. I think it will be improved and can be useful to us,&#8221; Hetman added.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;The fact that we attack with drones at a distance of more than a thousand kilometers &#8211; a drone cannot carry large explosives. 10-20 kilograms and that&#8217;s it. It cannot cause significant destruction. Even our other drone missiles, which can cover a distance of more than a thousand kilometers, can carry explosives of about a hundred kilograms &#8211; that&#8217;s also not bad, it&#8217;s better than a drone, but carrying up to a thousand kilograms is a very powerful explosion and you can destroy something very significantly. This is an advantage,&#8221; the expert explains.<\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" data-right>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/shmyhal-confirmed-the-production-of-the-long-range-flamingo-missile-it-has-already-hit-targets-in-the-russian-federation\/\">Ukraine confirms Flamingo long-range missile successfully strikes targets in Russia<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p> At the same time, he emphasized that the effectiveness of this Flamingo missile can only be discussed after its use in real conditions.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;We&#8217;ll see how much it will justify itself, how much it will be useful to us. In the long run, it is possible that the missile program is expanding, and we are starting to produce more missiles, our own ballistic missiles. Although we hear reports from the leadership of our country about the number of missiles of various types. Judging by this information, we should already have more missiles than the Russian Federation. But these statements, these messages, they please us. Let&#8217;s wait until we see the results of the action of these missiles,&#8221; military analyst Oleksiy Getman summed up.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraina-hotuie-sotni-novykh-raket-flaminho-vzhe-vidbulys-uspishni-vyprobuvannia\/\">successful tests of the Ukrainian Flamingo missile<\/a> have already taken place, and its mass production should begin early next year.<\/p>\n<p> Earlier it became known that Ukraine received at its disposal <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/vdvichi-potuzhnisha-za-tomahawk-v-ukraini-rozpochaly-seriyne-vyrobnytstvo-krylatoi-dalekobiynoi-rakety-flaminho\/\">a new generation cruise missile called \u201cFlamingo\u201d<\/a> . Its range is 3000 km, and the warhead weighs one ton \u2013 it is twice as powerful as the American Tomahawk. The missile is an analogue of the FP-5 from the Milanion Group, which is already ready to produce dozens of such weapons every month.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Ukrainian Flamingo missile, which can carry up to a thousand kilograms of explosives to a distance of up to 3,000 kilometers, has its pros and cons. It is difficult to shoot down by ground-based air defenses, but it can be an easy target for aircraft. This opinion was expressed on the air of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1283506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874],"class_list":["post-1283513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1283513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1283506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1283513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}