— A Ukrainian ballistic missile with a range of 850 km will be ready by mid-year, revealed Denys Shtilerman, co-founder and chief designer of Fire Point. A company that has become a key cog in the Ukrainian war machine in recent months.
It was this company that designed the extremely effective FP-1 drone, which has been used for many months for long-range attacks on Russian territory, hitting the Kremlin's infrastructure at a distance of up to over 1.2 thousand meters. km. In recent months, the FP-5 cruise missile with a range of 3,000 has also been introduced into service. km, but it is the FP-9 missile that Shtilerman talks about above, may turn out to be a real game changer in the fight against Putin.
In the Kremlin, they will wake up to a new reality
FP-9 is a ballistic missile with a range of 850 km and a speed of almost 8,000. km per hour and a warhead weighing 800 kg. In practice this means that it will be the most powerful ballistic missile in Kiev's arsenal — the name currently held by the American ATACMS missile.
MGM-140 ATACMS missile in actionJohn Hamilton / Public Domain / DVDS
However, the effectiveness of Kiev's new missile will depend not only on its combat capabilitiesbut also the scale of its production. If Ukraine is unable to produce it in larger numbers, the FP-9 will likely prove to be merely a military curiosity and will play no significant role in the fight against a Russian invasion.
