{"id":62332,"date":"2025-09-07T14:53:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T09:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=62332"},"modified":"2025-09-09T11:10:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T05:40:18","slug":"flamingo-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/flamingo-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"Flamingo Missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Flamingo Missile Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ukraine recently unveiled a new cruise missile named Flamingo.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Flamingo Missile<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>FP-5 \u201cFlamingo<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d missile is a <strong>l<\/strong><\/span><b>ong-range cruise missile.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was <\/span><b>developed by Ukraine&#8217;s<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Fire Point defense company.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Flamingo Missile <\/b><b>Features<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With a claimed <\/span><b>range <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of<\/span><b> 3,000 kilometres, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a <\/span><b>1,150-kilogram warhead,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and a <\/span><b>maximum takeoff weight of 6,000 kg<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the Flamingo is<\/span><b> among the world\u2019s largest <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and<\/span><b> longest-range ground-launched cruise-missile<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> systems.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has a wingspan of about six meters.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This makes the Flamingo the <\/span><b>first indigenously produced \u201cheavy\u201d missile system in Ukraine\u2019s arsenal.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It employs a <\/span><b>turbofan engine.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has a <\/span><b>speed <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of up to<\/span><b> 900 km\/h<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>navigation <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">based on an <\/span><b>inertial system and GPS.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The missile\u2019s <\/span><b>high terminal velocity<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, in combination with its <\/span><b>heavy weight, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">means that the <\/span><b>warhead penetrates deeper into the target<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> before exploding, which significantly increases the destructive power.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\">The missile is also designed to be<b style=\"font-size: inherit;\"> resistant to electronic warfare systems,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> likely using a secure GPS module with CRPA antennas.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/europe\/2025\/08\/27\/ukraine-shows-off-a-deadly-new-cruise-missile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ECO<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FP-5 Flamingo missile by Ukraine\u2019s Fire Point is one of the world\u2019s largest and longest-range ground-launched cruise missile systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":62482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2553,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-62332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-flamingo-missile","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}