Big if true. Big if, true. Big.
From Business Insider, August 18:
- Ukraine announced it has begun serial production of a cruise missile said to carry a 1,000-kg warhead.
- The Flamingo is rumored to have a range of 1,800 miles and looks to be a huge conventional weapon.
- A missile of such range and power could allow strikes on vital production hubs deep inside Russia.
Ukraine has started making a new cruise missile said to be capable of carrying a 1,000 kg warhead with a range of 1,800 miles, according to its defense minister.
Denys Shmyhal, who was appointed as defense minister in July, said at a public event on Monday that serial production of the missile, dubbed the Flamingo, had begun.
The minister declined to discuss the missile further, saying that more details would be disclosed "when the right time comes."
But his announcement comes a day after other sources in Ukraine reported on its specifications. Efrem Lukatsky, an Associated Press photographer, published an image on Monday of a large missile that he identified as the Flamingo.
Lukatsky's Facebook post said the photo was taken on Thursday at a workshop run by Fire Point, a Ukrainian defense company. He also wrote that the missile had a range of 3,000 kilometers, or roughly 1,800 miles....
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