Temu Tomahawk shows Ukraine is rapidly turning into China for the US Military, and that's a good thing
- Flamingo delivers longer range while costing roughly half as much
- Cheap missiles are forcing expensive defense strategies to evolve rapidly
- Ukraine's defense industry is becoming impossible for competitors to ignore
Ukraine's defense industry increasingly produces weapons that promise comparable battlefield effects at substantially lower costs than their Western counterparts.
Fire Point's Flamingo cruise missile has become one of the clearest examples of this broader shift in production.
A new report from The Atlantic notes it travels roughly twice as far as the US Tomahawk while carrying a larger payload at about half the cost.
Cost-driven innovation is reshaping missile production
Fire Point founder Denys Shtilerman says the company now produces roughly 200 long-range drones every day alongside up to three Flamingo cruise missiles.
The Flamingo reportedly achieves its lower production cost partly by using repurposed jet engines from older Soviet aircraft instead of new propulsion systems.
The missile also relies...
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