Ukraine’s New FP-7 Ballistic Missile is Quickly Becoming Russia’s Worst Nightmare

First, it's important to point out that we know for a fact this is bad for the Russians, because their response to this is a kind of panic.

we've seen around the time of the same announcement a couple of other things happening that are very interesting the first is this rumor that one of the head leaders of ukraine's firepoint company the company that makes these new ballistic missiles had an attempt on his life by the russians Now, this is kind of being confirmed by some people, denied by others.

But whether or not it really happened, we do know that attempts on this man's life are increasing.

And increasingly, he has a lot more security around him.

And he is also sleeping in different places every single night because the Russians see him as such a threat.

And at the same time, we also see this new Russian bounty of $20 million for information on the whereabouts of Magyar, where the Russians are basically trying to bribe this man's own security to give him up so that they can take him out.

And this is the man who's actually developing a lot of the strategies for Ukraine's long-range strikes against Russia, the man who actually uses the technology on the battlefield.

So we see the Russians potentially attacking this problem on two different fronts.

They're trying to attack those who are actually producing the technology, and they're trying to attack those who are using the technology, proving that whatever Russia might say about how they're not nervous and how Ukraine really can't do much against them, They are very terrified of what could happen as this technology gets introduced in more and more scale, and they're doing what they can to stop that from happening, though to this point they are being unsuccessful.

And it is very clear why the Russians are so worried.

At first glance, these new ballistic missiles that Ukraine has just successfully tested aren't all that impressive, to be honest, at least in this first iteration.

They have a range of somewhere between 250 and 300 kilometers, which isn't nothing, but it's not enough to get all the way to Moscow, let alone St. Petersburg and some other major Russian cities.

At the same time, it is enough for Ukraine to strike, for example, the cities of Belgorod or Rostov-on-Don.

And it's especially enough for Ukraine to strike some really strategic Russian positions a little bit closer to the front line, especially if the Russians are clustering troops.

For example, if they have a new mobilization, that might happen soon.

And what's really interesting about these ballistic missiles is that while their range might be a little bit more limited, they can carry a pretty substantial payload.

Something around 150 kilograms, which is approximately two to three times the payload of the average long-range Ukrainian strike drone.

which means that when these ballistic missiles do hit their targets, they hit with a much heavier punch and they can actually destroy targets a lot more effectively when they get through.

And they are more likely to get through a lot more often because the main advantage of these ballistic missiles is that they fly incredibly fast.

They can reach targets that are very far away in a matter of a couple of minutes, especially at shorter ranges.

Whereas for a drone, it might take them a couple of hours.

And these high rates of speed also mean that these new missiles are much harder for the Russians to intercept.

All of that means that, as has been a theme for so much of this war, Russia is now going to have to worry a lot about targets that they traditionally thought of as relatively safe.

And while this development alone won't change the tide of the battlefield, it's yet another upgrade compounding on top of all of Ukraine's already very impressive successes.

and it's far from the last upgrade we're going to see.