Ukraine's Flamingo Missile Uses Safran Guidance System
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The Ukrainian cruise missile FP-5 Flamingo flies with a guidance system of the French armaments company Saffron. The cooperation shows how closely European companies are now cooperating with the Ukrainian defence industry.
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This photograph shows a stuffed pink flamingo perched on an FP-5 Flamingo cruise missile from Ukrainian defence technology company Fire Point on display at Eurosatory, a land and airland defence and security trade fair, in Villepinte on the outskirts of Paris, on June 16, 2026. (Photo by JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP)
Ukraine's Flamingo missile uses Safran guidance system
Ukraine’s Flamingo long-range cruise missile is guided by a system supplied by French aerospace and defense group Safran, according to Le Monde. The French daily reported that officials from Ukraine and Safran confirmed their cooperation over the past year during Eurosatory 2026. Developed by Ukrainian manufacturer Fire Point, the Flamingo has a claimed range of 3,000 kilometers (1,860 miles) and carries a 1,150-kilogram (2,535-pound) warhead.…
The FP-5 Flamingo cruise missile now incorporates a French guidance system signed Safran. This technological cooperation illustrates the discreet strengthening of industrial links between Ukrainian defence...
The missile manufacturer, Fire Point, Ukraine, confirmed to the publication that the Safran decision was integrated into the product more than a year ago.
Last month, the industrial sites of the Russian companies VNIIR-Progress and Titan-Barrikady (a Roscosmos subsidiary) were hit by Ukrainian airstrikes, carried out respectively in Cheboksary (June 10) and Volgograd (June 27). Both sites were targeted by FP-5 Flamingo long-range missiles. This article, "Safran supplies the guidance system for the Ukrainian FP-5 Flamingo long-range cruise missile," first appeared on Zone Militaire.
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