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Confirmed! Ukraine's Flamingo Missile Has a Devastating 1-Ton Warhead.

A Flamingo packs 10 times as much firepower as Ukraine's main strike drones.

Sep 03, 2025
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There’s still an awful lot we don’t know about Ukraine’s new Flamingo cruise missile. But post-raid satellite imagery of the Flamingo’s first target—a Russian spy and hovercraft base in occupied Crimea—seems to confirm at least one of the Flamingo’s purported attributes.

Its enormous warhead weighing up to 2,200 pounds.

On Wednesday, Exilenova_plus posted high-resolution imagery that Airbus logged on Monday, two days after the Flamingo raid on the Russian federal security service base near Armiansk, 60 miles from the front line in northern Crimea.

The 30-centimeter-resolution imagery graphically depicts at least one destroyed building as well as an enormous crater just off the shoreline—possible evidence of a near-miss by one of the seven-ton Flamingos.

The apparent size and depth of the crater is “consistent with the declared one-ton warhead mass,” Special Kherson Cat noted. The multi-missile attack on Armiansk reportedly damaged six hovercraft and killed on Russian service member.

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