This Would Be Ukraine's Unstoppable Deep Strike Missile
The air-launched FP-9 is Ukraine's answer to Russia's Kinzhal
Ukraine is developing an air-launched ballistic missile in the same class as the Russian Kinzhal.
If the air-launched version of Fire Point’s FP-9 missile actually works, it could significantly expand the area of Russia where Ukrainian forces can inflict lasting damage on air bases, factories, oil refineries and other strategic targets.
Fire Point has been working on the FP-9 for many months. But it wasn’t until recently that Fire Point chief engineer Denys Shtilerman revealed that the ground-launched ballistic missile could eventually evolve into an air-launched ballistic missile akin to the 4,300-kg Kinzhal.
Ranging as far as 850 km with an 800-kg warhead, the precision-guided FP-9 is a bigger version of Fire Point’s FP-7 ground-launched ballistic missile, which ranges 200 km with a 150-kg warhead. The FP-7 is already in testing. Fire Point plans to begin testing of the FP-9 as early as this summer.
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