A salvo of Ukrainian Flamingo cruise missiles – a domestically developed weapon usually shot down or just missing its target in past air battles – for the first time delivered solid combat performance with three of five school bus-sized weapons plowing into and partially obliterating a critical military components factory deep inside Russia, geo-located images made public over the weekend showed. Official Ukrainian sources had claimed that overnight June 26-27, five FP-5 “Flamingo” heavy cruise missiles built by the Kyiv-headquartered company Fire Point, and launched by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), flew roughly 500-900 km (310-560 miles) into Russian Federation air space to hit and damage the Titan-Barrikady Federal Research and Production Center military-industrial facility in Volgograd, Russia.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. Region Governor Andrey Bocharov reported in a post-strike statement that a Ukrainian attack had damaged “a production facility” in Volgograd and injured at least 10 people, without offering details. Analysis of from-the-ground images and video by the open-source intelligence (OSINT) research groups Dnipro Osint (Harbuz) and Exilenova+ agreed that two workshops at the plant, No. 2 and No. 38, suffered major structural damage from blast and fire inside the buildings. Workshop 38 is the plant’s main production facility, containing machine tools and assembly lines, including final production for ballistic missile launchers and missile carriers used by the Russian military. The plant’s products include launchers and components for the Iskander-M missile, a ballistic weapon the Kremlin has used for years to hit Ukrainian homes and businesses.