Ukraine likely completes first production batch of homegrown Flamingo missiles — expert
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Mon, 25 Aug 2025 21:20:00 +0300

Valerii Riabykh, military expert and Defense Express development director, said this on Espreso TV."Regarding the serial production of Flamingo, OSINT analysts found an important detail in the video: numbers in the three hundreds were marked, which look very much like serial numbers. This may indicate that a certain batch of these missiles has already been manufactured. Of course, some research batches in small quantities, up to several dozen, could have been used for testing," Riabykh noted.According to the military expert, the appearance of information about Flamingo missiles precisely during the Alaska negotiations and during the Ukrainian president's visit to the U.S. indicates that this is a significant Ukrainian argument in these talks. This is also confirmed by the president's statements that Ukraine is no longer in a position to agree to any humiliating compromises dictated by Russia."Therefore, the further use of Flamingo missiles against Russian territory will depend on how these signals are perceived in the Kremlin. Whether they truly realize that the tasks they set within this special operation cannot be accomplished, and they give up. Or they continue to insist that there is no place for Ukraine on this earth. In such a case, these missiles will undoubtedly appear in sufficient quantities against those targets that have already been tested. But the combat potential of the drones used against them was insufficient for complete destruction. Therefore, the Flamingo missile could become an effective means to complete this work," Riabykh added.On August 17, Ukrainian professional photojournalist and holder of the Order of Merit II and III degrees, Yefrem Lukatsky, who works with the American news agency Associated Press, published a photo of a Ukrainian-made Flamingo missile.
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