Fire Point has tested the FP-7.X ballistic missile, which will serve as the basis for the FREYJA anti-ballistic interceptor – video
Kyiv • UNN
Fire Point has tested the FP-7.X missile for the FREYJA interceptor. This development will allow Ukraine to independently protect its skies from ballistic threats.
Fire Point has conducted tests of the FP-7.X ballistic missile, which will serve as the basis for the FREYJA anti-ballistic interceptor. This was reported by the company's technical director, Iryna Terekh, according to UNN.
"The other day we conducted an extremely important test: a fully controlled maneuvering flight of the FP-7.X missile, which will form the basis of the future FREYJA anti-ballistic interceptor. No matter how unrealistic and ambitious this goal may sound today, we are making every possible and impossible effort to ensure it becomes a reality as soon as possible and that Ukraine can close its own skies independently," Iryna Terekh wrote on her Instagram page.
According to her, states lose wars on the battlefield much less often than they lose them in institutions, laboratories, and manufacturing plants ten years before they begin.
When a country underfunds engineering education for years, cuts research, loses manufacturing competencies, or becomes accustomed to relying on foreign technologies, it gradually accumulates a strategic deficit. It only becomes noticeable when a war begins. However, we must climb out of the 'death pit,' draw the right conclusions from our own past mistakes, and move forward, as well as take the initiative into our own hands without waiting for changes in state policies or funding,
She added that every successful test of a new missile is a step toward Ukraine's technological sovereignty, which is defined by whether Ukrainians are capable of creating critical technologies on their own.