"A factory error left early FP-5 cruise missiles pink, leading Fire Point to nickname it “Flamingo” — a name that stuck." The company's director, Iryna Terekh, an architect before the war, liked the color though, so she kept it for the nose. "Woman's touch in missiles," said Terekh.

When she was hired, the goal was to produce 30 of them a month. Ukraine claims to be producing up to 100 per day. And somehow managing to do all that for just $55,000 a piece. It has many wondering how Ukraine can do all this for practically nothing when similarly specced US-made Tomahawk missiles cost over $2 million.

KYIV — While Ukraine's allies twist themselves into knots over how to provide it with security guarantees, Kyiv is moving ahead with its own way of keeping Russia at bay — a new cruise missile

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