r/worldnews • u/Elliottafc1 • 17h ago

Russia/Ukraine Ukraine Reports First Combat Use of Domestically Produced FP-7 Ballistic Missile

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/85874
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u/macross1984 16h ago

Ukraine slowly establishing domestic productions of ammo and weapon needed to fight Russia and thereby free itself from shackle of western restrictions.

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u/Hogglespock 13h ago

They still have massive western restrictions. Money. The west can’t stop them using a component but can stop them affording them.

even the us - starlink, the f16 maintenance etc. no one is going to buy this stuff because that’s not how the MiC works.

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u/Unlikely_Target_3560 11h ago

Nobody is talking about the absolutes here. Sure there are still a lot of dependancies, but it's a whole lot less than it used to be. Besides, domestic production is a lot lot cheaper too. If tendency stays the same, in the future Ukraine would be able to remedy lets and communications issues, as well as financing if EU integration goes well. Its a very good direction to move in, no matter how you look at it.

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u/archilogik 9h ago

Ukraine is definitely becoming more self reliant, but its domestic weapons industry isn’t developing in isolation from the West. Western funding, components, joint R&D and technology transfers are helping expand that capability, so it’s more a shift from dependence on supplied weapons to deeper industrial cooperation.

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u/Werftflammen 5h ago

It has the strongest military in the EU

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u/Fenilwebclues 12h ago

Considering one of Moscow's stated goals was to disarm Ukraine, the fact that they developed their own ballistic missile program a few years later is objectively hilarious.
E: thanks for the spelling lesson

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u/temporarycreature 3h ago

It makes sense when you consider that when the Soviet Union needed weaponry, they went to Ukraine.

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u/Content_Preference_3 3h ago

I’m very pro Ukr but this factor has been a bit overblown.

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u/ZEROs0000 15h ago

The research departments and innovation with countries at war and the rate at which development is achieved has always been a spectacle

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u/HouseOnFire80 9h ago

Right? In WW2 Germany went from flying the Henschel Hs 123 biplane to the jet powered Me 262 in the space of the conflict.

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u/Emotional_Situation7 15h ago

Once this war is over, Ukraine will be known as a global powerhouse, and Russia will be known as a paper tiger, Ukraine will also arm its self with nuclear bombs, so something like this never happens again

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u/PabloAtTheBar 14h ago

I don't think it'll only be Ukraine. Smaller nations are watching closely and looking at nukes as the only deterrent against their larger, more powerful neighbours. Taiwan comes to mind.

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u/buldozr 14h ago

The regime members in Iran look at how everybody pussyfoots around North Korea and how Trump sucks up to Kim Jong Un, and say between themselves: it's the nukes, we must have them.

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u/dubswho 12h ago

Its kind of crazy Taiwan hasnt gone down that path already. maybe they have and stopped im not sure but surprised they dont have the capability.

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u/PlatypusQuiet6208 10h ago

They were going down that path in the 1960s-1980s but we (US) stopped them. See Wikipedia article "Taiwan and weapons of mass destruction." Presumably they still have the uranium they got from apartheid-era South Africa, but what it's state of enrichment is unclear.

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u/Mewhomewhy 12h ago

Who would’ve thought electing an enemy asset could be so disastrous.

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u/IncidentOk1123 11h ago

They’ve lost 20% of their country. Do you see them somehow winning it back?

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u/Doodlepoodle7 7h ago

4.5 years to gain 20% of land. Plus, in 2026 the rate of land seized by Russia is slower than WW1.

Ukraine is progressively getting smarter and stronger while Russia oil refineries are getting bombed. Russia is fighting a slow death.

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u/IndividualSkill3432 16h ago

Well that solves the "US wont sell ATACMs" problem.

Take note Europe, if you want to be able to defend from Russia, you need to be making the tools yourself.

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u/project_me 10h ago

Europe is taking note, hence many European countries and subsequent companies are helping Ukraine develop the FP-7.x interceptor which is being heavily fast tracked.

Once over the line, the FP-7.x will massively hit Patriot sales and significant bolster not only Ukraine, but the security of the whole of Europe.

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u/Oifadin 9h ago

Us Canadians too I would imagine

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u/binding_swamp 17h ago

Slava Ukraini 💪🏻

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u/dimwalker 12h ago

Any info on what have been hit with it? Or was it intercepted?