Weapon

Associated Press reporters visited the factory of Fire Point, which produces long-range FP-1 drones and the FP-5 cruise missile with a range of up to 3,000 km. The developers talked about the production of their weapons and why the powerful Ukrainian missile was named «Flamingo».

Less than a week remains until the main national holiday — Independence Day. For some reason, I remembered how for decades Russians ironically and mockingly called Ukraine «independent», trying to neutralize this very concept and once again remind us that without an inadequate and extremely abusive «big brother» behind our backs, we have no chance. Perhaps somewhere our Independence was indeed purely formal — for example, in the technological and defense sectors. The latter had been stagnant for a long time in a dark transition, one side of which rested against a dense, but already dilapidated «scoop», and the other led to a bright European progressive technological future. Oddly enough, it was the full-scale war that forced a rapid leap towards the light, putting the very existential survival of the Ukrainian nation at stake.