Ukraine’s bright pink FP-7.X missile is turning heads—and giving Russia a new problem to worry about. Developed by Fire Point, this next-generation interceptor could reshape Ukraine’s air defense and help build a European shield against ballistic missile threats. With lower costs, advanced maneuverability, and ambitious plans under the FREYJA program, the FP-7.X represents a major leap in military innovation. Discover how this remarkable missile could change the balance of power in Europe.
00:00 - Putin’s Pink Nightmare
01:38 - The Powerful FP-7 Ballistic Missile
03:13 - Shifting to Air Defense: FP-7.X
04:40 - Building a Pan-European Sky Shield
06:04 - A Cheaper Alternative to Patriot Missiles
07:22 - Crucial Hit-to-Kill Capabilities
08:10 - Russia’s Massive Aerial Campaign
10:12 - The Window of Vulnerability
11:58 - Decoupling Europe From US Air Defense
13:44 - Rapid Production & Putin’s Rhetoric
15:55 - What is Ukraine's Secret Weapon?
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00:00 - Putin’s Pink Nightmare
01:38 - The Powerful FP-7 Ballistic Missile
03:13 - Shifting to Air Defense: FP-7.X
04:40 - Building a Pan-European Sky Shield
06:04 - A Cheaper Alternative to Patriot Missiles
07:22 - Crucial Hit-to-Kill Capabilities
08:10 - Russia’s Massive Aerial Campaign
10:12 - The Window of Vulnerability
11:58 - Decoupling Europe From US Air Defense
13:44 - Rapid Production & Putin’s Rhetoric
15:55 - What is Ukraine's Secret Weapon?
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00:00What is pretty in pink and gives Putin nightmares?
00:04Ukraine's new missile, which is set to change the game not only in Ukraine, but in all of Europe.
00:09Ukraine has just done something that not even the strongest European powers could do,
00:13and that means Russia has a serious problem.
00:16The ballistic missile strategy that the Kremlin had devised for Ukraine lies in tatters.
00:21Something pink and powerful is coming for Russia's most lethal missiles,
00:26and it's making Putin tear what's left of his hair.
00:29It took just 30 seconds for Ukraine to showcase the last thing that Russia wanted to see.
00:34As the camera pans around, we see it for the first time.
00:37The FP-7X.
00:39Affixed to its launcher, the brilliant pink missile is in firing position,
00:44pointed toward the sky and ready to fly,
00:46which is a monument to the ingenuity of Ukraine and Firepoint,
00:49which is the company behind so many of Ukraine's most important drones.
00:53It was Firepoint that developed the Flamingo,
00:55another pink weapon that is hitting Russia as we speak.
00:57The Flamingo is a cruise missile drone hybrid capable of delivering 1,150 kilograms of explosive fury
01:04at about 3,000 kilometers, but the FP-7X is different.
01:10This isn't a missile designed to hurt Russia.
01:12It was made to defend Ukraine and all of Europe.
01:15As the camera pans out, we see the final preparations for launch.
01:19An instruction is given, and the engines fire.
01:21A massive plume of smoke forms under the pink missile as it flies directly up,
01:25leaving a trail of flames in its wake.
01:27The footage switches to different angles.
01:30The missile continues its ascent and then streaks into the sky.
01:33No target is hit.
01:35But that wasn't the point.
01:36This was Firepoint's victory lap, the small clip that showcases what is coming for Russia.
01:41Finally, after years of relying on Western help,
01:44Ukraine has built a ballistic missile interceptor that it believes will finally be the turning point
01:49in the aerial battle.
01:50Russia's last real weapon advantage over Ukraine is being mitigated.
01:54The one weapon that Ukraine needs more than any other has arrived,
01:58and it didn't come courtesy of the US or any of Ukraine's European partners.
02:02Ukraine built this weapon itself,
02:04and it's changed the entire complexion of European air defense as we know it.
02:09Something has changed. Forever.
02:11And you'll understand why as we dig into what this new missile is and what it represents.
02:16To the casual Ukraine war observer,
02:18the pink missile that Firepoint just demonstrated represents what appears to be
02:22the second known launch of Ukraine's FB-7 ballistic missile.
02:26That launch was accompanied by the FB-7's first fully guided flight,
02:30and it's a milestone for Ukraine.
02:31Even if we take air defense out of the equation for a moment,
02:34the FB-7 delivers homegrown ballistic missile capabilities to Ukraine.
02:38That already hurts Poot.
02:40Russia was supposed to be the only country that had a real ballistic missile threat.
02:44Whatever Ukraine could do would come courtesy of its Western partners,
02:48which meant that Russia would always be able to stand ahead when it comes to stockpiles.
02:52But with the FB-7, Ukraine has changed everything.
02:55With a range of up to 200 kilometers and a maximum speed of Mach 4.3,
02:59the FB-7 is lethal.
03:00It can carry a warhead weighing 150 kilograms,
03:04and the missile has a maximum flight duration of 250 seconds,
03:07Militani revealed in a September 2025 assessment.
03:11On its own, the FB-7 is a revolution for Ukraine.
03:14But what we see in the footage isn't just Firepoint's announcement
03:17that it's entered the ballistic missile arena.
03:19What we saw is the FB-7, but not as we know it.
03:22The missile in Firepoint's video was the FB-7X, not the original FB-7.
03:27That matters because it means two things.
03:30First, Firepoint is already at the point where it's tweaking its original FB-7 design
03:34so that the missile can be used for purposes other than striking Russia.
03:38Second, and linked to this fact,
03:39the FB-7X is expected to form the basis of a Europe-encompassing air defense platform
03:45that is unlike anything that the continent or Putin has seen before.
03:49This wasn't just a missile test.
03:51This was the early days of Frasier in action.
03:55United24 Media reports that the footage Firepoint shared demonstrates how Firepoint's pink missile
03:59can adjust the path of its flight after launch,
04:02which is a critical ability for a missile to have if it's going to be used for air defense.
04:06The same outlet notes that Firepoint likely carried out several other test maneuvers
04:10that it didn't showcase in the video.
04:12That makes sense.
04:13The footage of the FB-7X was a teaser for what's to come,
04:16not a piece of intelligence that Russia could use to figure out how Ukraine made the missile.
04:20Send the warning.
04:21Don't reveal the secrets.
04:22This is a perfect strategy for Ukraine as it looks to send uncontrollable shivers up Putin's spine.
04:28Russia's leader would prefer for a very different 30 seconds to be delivering those shivers,
04:32and the fear he'll feel when seeing the FB-7X in action is compounded by the knowledge
04:37of why Ukraine has developed its latest weapon.
04:40The pink missile wouldn't exist were it not for Putin's invasion,
04:43and neither would the Frasier program for which it will serve a vital role.
04:47The FB-7X isn't a standalone missile.
04:50It's part of a much larger whole that encompasses much of Europe.
04:54The co-founder of Firepoint, Denis Stielman,
04:56revealed back in May when he said that Ukraine's new pink missile will form the basis of a pan-European
05:01air defense system
05:02that delivers to Europe something that the continent would never otherwise have had without help from the U.S.
05:07And this isn't Ukraine working alone.
05:09Partnerships all over Europe have made the FB-7X possible.
05:13The infrared semi-homing head loaded into the front of the missile is being developed by Firepoint,
05:18and the German air defense manufacturer Deal Defense.
05:20For its long-range detection radar, either the Saab Giraffe 8A4A,
05:25Hensolt TRML4D, or the Thales Groundmaster 400 will be used.
05:30None of these is made in Ukraine.
05:32All are available in Europe.
05:34And that's the point.
05:35Ukraine's pink missile is a solution to the very real ballistic threat that Russia poses to all of Europe.
05:40It's a sign that Putin's efforts to divide, to split Ukraine's allies,
05:44and minimize the aid that Ukraine receives have failed.
05:47And most importantly, the FB-7X represents Ukraine's evolution
05:51from being a recipient of military hardware and into a genuine partner to European allies
05:56that relies heavily on tech developed in Ukraine in 2026,
05:59as Ukraine relied on Western tech when Putin first launched his invasion.
06:03Putin's goal was to subjugate,
06:05but all he did was create a military monster that Russia can't contain.
06:09In its analysis of Frasier and the pink missile that serves as the program's foundation,
06:15Global Defense Corps reveals that one of the core principles behind the program
06:18is the reduction of the cost involved in tackling Russia's ballistic missile threat.
06:23The Kyiv post highlights the same point,
06:25as it notes that the FB-7X is expected to cost substantially less than $1 million for each missile.
06:32With European funding and a series of partners that want to buy as many of these missiles as possible,
06:37Firepoint could hold the key to creating the sky shield that Europe desperately needs against Russia.
06:41Ukraine may also have a replacement for Patriot missile interceptors,
06:45which cost over $4 million each.
06:47Lethal enough to take out ballistic missiles at a quarter of the cost of the Patriot
06:51sounds like a good deal for Ukraine and its partners already.
06:55And as strange as it sounds,
06:56even the choice of pink for the missile has a practical purpose.
07:00Firepoint hasn't chosen that color to humiliate Putin
07:02or because it's a trademark of the company after the development of the Flamingo.
07:06Pink is the pick because that color makes the missile easier to track
07:09and will also help recovery teams locate debris after impact,
07:13ensuring that Ukraine can clear up before Russia has a chance to get its hands
07:16on the remains of Firepoint's new air defense missiles.
07:19Now, all of this is very exciting for Ukraine and Europe as a whole,
07:22but there is a caveat to Firepoint's FB-7X demonstration that needs to be mentioned.
07:27If Firepoint and Ukraine are to truly have a Russian ballistic missile killer on their hands,
07:32there are a few things that we need to see from the FB-7X.
07:35The type of maneuverability needed to track and strike ballistic missiles is one of them.
07:40These types of missiles aren't like drones or cruise missiles.
07:44It isn't good enough for an interceptor missile to explode nearby.
07:47Hit-to-kill capabilities are a must.
07:50And for the FB-7X to be a real threat to Russia's ballistic stockpile,
07:54it needs to be maneuverable enough to score direct hits against fast-moving missiles.
07:59It looks like Firepoint's pink missile has the requisite speed.
08:02If that can be paired with proper course correction capabilities,
08:06then Ukraine is in business.
08:07Assuming that the FB-7X can move as well as it needs to move,
08:10the literal rise of the FB-7X is massive,
08:13both in the context of the Ukraine war and Europe's defense against Russia.
08:17Why?
08:18Before we answer that question,
08:19this is a quick reminder that you're watching the military show.
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08:29Now, let's start with Ukraine.
08:31Putin has created a severe ballistic missile problem for Ukraine
08:34that needs to be solved sooner rather than later.
08:37As CNN reported on June 4th,
08:39Russia has been ramping up its aerial strikes against Ukraine for a while now.
08:43It has had to.
08:44With Russia's ground campaign in 2026 being nothing short of disastrous,
08:49the only way for Putin to support his claim that the fall of Ukraine is inevitable
08:52is to ramp up Russia's aerial campaign.
08:55Russia is now at the point where it's launching around 8,000 Shahid-type drones at Ukraine monthly.
09:00However, it's ballistic missiles that represent the much bigger problem for Ukraine,
09:04and we can see that in the numbers.
09:06For instance, according to CNN,
09:08a Russian airstrike against Ukraine on June 2nd involved 41 ballistic missiles.
09:13That's more missiles than Russia launched at Ukraine in all of May,
09:16and 30 of the 41 managed to touch down on Ukrainian territory.
09:20Ballistic missile interceptions are nowhere near the rate that Ukraine needs them to be.
09:24Ukraine's Ministry of Defense also highlighted the problem
09:27when reporting on the performance of its air defenses in May.
09:30Drones were mostly dealt with.
09:32Ukraine achieved an interception rate of 91.73% for Russia's strike drones,
09:37amounting to 7,476 intercepts of 8,150 drones that Russia fired.
09:44Cruise and ballistic missile interceptions were much lower.
09:46Of 211 Russian missiles launched, Ukraine intercepted 112 for a rate of just over 53%.
09:53Gaps are forming in Ukraine's air defenses.
09:56Russia can sense them, and it's trying to take advantage of it.
09:59According to Ukrainian military intelligence,
10:01Russia is now able to launch around 100 ballistic missiles per month,
10:05while maintaining its existing stockpiles at a stable level.
10:08That's a major concern for Ukraine.
10:10With an approximate 50% interception rate,
10:13that means dozens of ballistic missiles could touch down on Ukrainian territory every month.
10:17The reason for this low interception rate comes down to a challenge
10:20that Ukraine has faced ever since Putin launched his invasion.
10:23Patriot missile stockpiles are never where Ukraine needs them to be.
10:27In a June 2nd piece for The Guardian,
10:29Peter Beaumont revealed that there is now a
10:31window of vulnerability that has been created in Europe
10:33as a result of Operation Epic Fury in Iran.
10:37About a third of the stockpiles of these interceptor missiles,
10:40amounting to an estimated 1,100 missiles,
10:43have already been burned through.
10:44Ukraine fills this problem more acutely than most.
10:47Not only are Patriot missiles extremely expensive,
10:50but they are now in short supply.
10:53Ukraine relies on the US and its Western partners
10:55to deliver these much-needed missiles to deal with Russia's ballistic threat.
10:58But when those missiles are being used elsewhere,
11:01Ukraine can't get them.
11:02The US won't give up any from its stockpiles when it's still using them.
11:05There's also a knock-on effect for European countries,
11:08which now hesitate to provide more Patriot missiles to Ukraine
11:10because they don't know if and when they'll be able to replenish their stockpiles.
11:14Operation Epic Fury sent a shockwave through Europe's air defences.
11:18The FP-7X is being positioned as the solution to a clear dependence
11:22on US missile interceptors that worries Europe and actively hurts Ukraine.
11:27If Ukraine were to just maintain the status quo,
11:29as Putin no doubt wants the country to do,
11:31then this ballistic missile problem would never be solved.
11:34That's according to Ukrainian Air Force Command spokesperson Yuri Ignat,
11:38who said on June 2nd that limited global production of air defense missiles
11:42will mean that Ukraine will face a shortage of what it needs
11:44for as long as the war rages.
11:46At least, it will if Ukraine doesn't do something about it.
11:49The FP-7X is Ukraine doing something about it.
11:53Operation Epic Fury sent a shockwave through Europe's air defences.
11:57However, behind Ukraine's immediate need for more air defense assets
12:00lies an even bigger issue.
12:02Europe is pretty much as reliant on the US for its air defences as Ukraine,
12:06which is why Frazier exists in the first place.
12:08Europe is looking to decouple from the US on the air defense front,
12:12which makes Ukraine's development of the FP-7X
12:14as much about building a sky shield for all of Europe
12:17as it is about serving Ukraine's needs to tackle Russia's ballistic missile assaults.
12:21Let's look toward a hypothetical future.
12:24Somehow, Russia is finally able to defeat Ukraine.
12:27With his mission accomplished, Putin turns his attention toward the rest of Europe,
12:31especially the European NATO members that he claims cause Russia so many problems.
12:35That's a massive problem for Europe because it relies on the US.
12:38As Euromiden Press points out,
12:40Europe as a continent doesn't make missile defenses at scale.
12:43Moves are being made to change that fact.
12:45On May 12, 13 European countries, including Ukraine,
12:49launched an anti-ballistic coalition
12:51under which the collaborative creation of the FP-7X and its supporting systems fall.
12:55But right now, there's too much reliance on US hardware in Europe,
12:58which opens up that window of vulnerability that Beaumont talked about.
13:01The US-made interceptor missiles that Europe needs to defend itself aren't coming anymore.
13:06According to the Center for Strategic and International Studies,
13:09rebuilding its missile stockpiles in all areas is going to be a multi-year project for the US,
13:14to the point where it won't be until the midpoint of 2029
13:17that the US will be back to its pre-Operation Epic Fury levels of Patriot interceptors.
13:22And that assumes that Operation Epic Fury doesn't reignite.
13:26No peace agreement has been reached between the US and Iran,
13:29and the ceasefire between the two nations still rests on a knife edge.
13:32A rekindling of hostilities will burn through more Patriot missiles,
13:36which puts a US-dependent European air defense strategy in an even worse position.
13:40Europe needs the FP-7X as much as Ukraine.
13:44Without it and the Frazier program,
13:46Russia's ballistic missiles could be the key to everything
13:49that Putin wants to achieve in Ukraine and Europe.
13:52Now, Ukraine has a solution that Europe couldn't deliver to itself,
13:55and the best thing about the FP-7X is that it may enter production
13:59much sooner than anybody could have anticipated.
14:02In a June 4th report, Interfax says that Stileman has hinted
14:06that Ukraine's new pink missile is close to entering production.
14:08I expect that this summer, or at the latest in the early fall,
14:12we'll begin test flights to Moscow.
14:14And since we never wait for approval and codification,
14:16but build production lines immediately,
14:18we never make one, two, or three copies of anything there.
14:21We immediately produce 10 test copies.
14:24We'll make 10 to 20 missiles there and start producing them.
14:27Then, once we've been codified, once they buy us,
14:30dozens will be produced there,
14:31Firepoint's co-founder declares.
14:33Stileman is talking about the FP-7 there.
14:35But the FP-7X is based on that ballistic missile,
14:38which means that we may be looking at Ukraine's air defense game changer
14:41entering production before the end of 2026.
14:45For Europe, this can't come soon enough.
14:47Russia has been ramping up its ballistic rhetoric,
14:49which makes the need for a counter more urgent than ever.
14:52In May, Putin was lauding the test firing
14:54of a new intercontinental ballistic missile named the Sarmat.
14:57Russia's leader calls the Sarmat
14:59the most powerful missile in the world,
15:01and he says that it will enter combat service by the end of 2026.
15:04At the same time, Russia is openly threatening the Baltic states,
15:08and Putin has signed a new law
15:09that permits him to invade any country
15:11if he's doing it to protect Russian citizens abroad.
15:14Between May 19th and 21st,
15:17Russia also held a shock exercise
15:19to test its strategic nuclear capabilities,
15:21which followed the test launch
15:22of a nuclear-capable missile on May 12th.
15:25These are all very purposeful signals
15:27that Putin is sending to Europe.
15:29Russia is laying the groundwork for a new war,
15:31and ballistic missiles will play a huge role in that conflict.
15:34The emergence of the FP7X has thrown a wrench into Putin's plans.
15:39Ukraine's pink missile is almost fully domestically produced,
15:42and the components that Ukraine can't make itself
15:44come from nations that have as vested an interest
15:46in protecting themselves against Russia as Ukraine has.
15:49US dependence is being taken out of the equation,
15:51and the Russian plan for Ukraine and Europe is being countered.
15:55For Putin, this is more than the announcement
15:57of a new Ukrainian weapon.
15:59Firepoint's pink missile signals a wholesale change
16:02in Europe and Ukraine's air defense posture,
16:04and it's a change that could make
16:06Russia's ballistic missile threat a non-factor.
16:09But while the FP7X is still in the testing phase,
16:12another new Ukrainian weapon is ruining Russia's rear.
16:14The Morrigan is a reality,
16:16and it's the secret weapon that Ukraine has been using
16:18to penetrate deep into the occupied territories
16:21to shatter Russian logistics in Crimea.
16:23What is the Morrigan, and why is it so important?
16:25Discover the answers to those questions in our video.
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16:33Ukrainian weapon developments.
16:35And thank you for watching.
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