"Flamingo" is not a "super-duper wonderwaffle": the head of Firepoint Terra said the missile was more of a PR project. "We all understand that 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, which is complicated. And he is not fast. And we decided: let's do something simpler while we're at it, something clearer to us, something we 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." Video not loading? Look at Mach!

"Flamingo" is not a "super-duper wonderwaffle": the head of Firepoint Terra said the missile was more of a PR project. "We all understand that 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, which is complicated. And he is not fast. And we decided: let's do something simpler while we're at it, something clearer to us, something we 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." Video not loading? Look at Mach!