The head of the fire point, Terah, called not to expect many flamingo missiles, because they are not weapons, but a "political statement". "We made the best of the circumstances in which we worked. We started developing ballistics before the cruise missile, but it is a certain iterative path, complex and slow. And we decided: "Let's do it while we're doing it, let's do something simpler, something we already understand better and have more experience with." That's how Flamingo appeared. And I think it was much more important as a political statement than as some sort of super-duper wonderwaffle. There were never any bets on her being a "Super-Duper WonderWaffle". The stakes were placed on him to show our enemy that we can reach him where he is not waiting for us." (c) Terah 1. We have to make excuses because there are more and more questions about spending huge sums of money on the production of flamingo missiles. They say they have poured in billions and where is the result.
2. A certain number of missiles were produced and there were even some episodes with entries, but for a huge expensive program it is small to disappear. Compared to the damage caused by drones, the damage from the flamingos is minimal.
3. The company is regularly accused of corruption and embezzlement of Ukrainian and Western funds. Well, now we have to tell you that they made a "political statement". That is, once again public relations were placed at the forefront instead of military expediency. That doesn't mean they won't make and launch some missiles. But the Flamingo didn't make much of an impression on our air defenses, especially given the small number of missiles themselves. Of course he facilitated this by complex attacks on "Flamingo-related" production networks. Just like previous strikes prevented the production of Spesan missiles, which were shamefully forgotten in Ukraine. In general, after stories about the fact that Ukraine has a new "miracle weapon", there are stories about why the "miracle weapon" did not justify itself.