Fire Point Builds 100 Missiles a Month as Ukraine Ramps Daily Deep-Strike Drone Output
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Updated · The Guardian · Jul 27
Fire Point Builds 100 Missiles a Month as Ukraine Ramps Daily Deep-Strike Drone Output
3 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Jul 27
Summary
About 100 Flamingo cruise missiles a month and “hundreds” of FP-1 and FP-2 drones a day are now coming off Fire Point’s lines, giving Ukraine a sustained capacity to hit targets deep inside Russia.
Production is scaling back up after delays to €90 billion in EU lending, and chief executive Iryna Terekh said Fire Point weapons have featured in nearly all deep-strike attacks in recent months, averaging five to 15 strikes a day.
Flamingo missiles carry 1,150kg warheads, cost just under $600,000 each and were used in June to hit a Russian military-components plant at Cheboksary after a roughly 1,800km flight path; FP-1 drones, costing $55,000-$75,000, have helped cut Russian refinery output by 20%.
Fire Point now runs 83 factories in Ukraine plus one in Denmark and employs 6,000 people, up from 3,500 late last year, underscoring how Ukraine’s domestic arms sector is narrowing Russia’s long-range strike advantage.
The company is also developing Ukraine’s first ballistic missiles for a hoped-for launch by year-end and supplying a 10-country Freyja air-defence project, aimed at a Patriot alternative with interceptors priced around $1 million.
How did a Ukrainian startup secretly build 84 factories to mass-produce cheap cruise missiles crippling Russia's war machine?
Will Ukraine's new $600,000 cruise missiles and decentralized factories make expensive Western defense systems obsolete in modern warfare?
As Ukraine targets Russian missile supply chains directly, what hidden vulnerabilities could halt their own rapid drone production?
Inside Ukraine’s 2026 Drone Production Boom: Deep Strikes, Distributed Factories, and the New European Defense Order
Overview
In 2026, Ukraine’s defense startup Fire Point massively scaled up drone and missile production, enabling a wave of deep strikes inside Russia that caused billions in economic losses and triggered a severe fuel crisis. As Russia retaliated with heavy bombardments on Ukrainian industry, Ukraine adopted a distributed manufacturing model, spreading production across dozens of secret sites to ensure resilience. With U.S. funding sharply reduced, European allies stepped in to support Ukraine financially and industrially. Fire Point also launched Project Freyja to build an affordable, pan-European missile defense system, further strengthening Ukraine’s role as a key security provider and innovator in modern warfare.