FP-5 Flamingo: poor man’s cruise missile.

The Ukrainian FP-5 Flamingo is an example of the ability to create a cheap cruise missile using spare parts. The large-sized drone has the capability to target locations up to 3,500 km away from the launch site. The drone itself is not very high-tech. It has an infrared camera. That helps to aim it at the target. The fact is that the IR sensor. It might be connected to the AI-based system, which helps the missile to recognize the target. Or. The agents can use. Some kind of small drone. With an infrared LED to mark the target for that missile. 

The missile requires only the location of the launching point. And then the missile can be used. An inertial navigation system with GPS. Then, in the last part of the journey. The missile starts to use an IR sensor. The system can actually operate with the same guidance system as the famous Javelin missile. Javelin is a much smaller anti-tank weapon. But the same programs and computers can be used in larger missiles. 

Those large missiles can carry large warheads. But they can also carry cluster or small kamikaze drones to target areas. The FP-5 Flamingo can also carry things. Like other missiles. Those missiles can take out radars. The large drone can also carry some kind of ECM systems. The warhead is about. 1000 kg-class high explosive. 

The FP-5 Flamingo might seem quite an easy target. But. We know that there are lots of things. That is not told about that weapon. Things. Like, its homing and target-seeking protocols are not published. The AI can give it the ability to make evasive maneuvers. But that is guessing. The fact is this. If those missiles are so easy targets, why do they not fail their missions? Another thing is that. Those missiles are an example. Of how fast the drone’s R&D cycle is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FP-5_Flamingo