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Missiles named after birds? Secret tech, high-speed strikes, and the inside scoop on Ukraine’s daring attacks on Moscow! We break down the Flamingo and Pelican missiles, French tech’s sneaky role, and why Russia can’t keep up. Watch to get the full story, and don’t forget to subscribe for more wild updates. Tell us in the comments what blew your mind the most! #Ukraine #Russia #Missiles #Defense #Technology
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0:00 - Overview of Moscow Strikes and Impact
1:04 - Introduction of New Ukrainian Missiles
2:11 - Missile Types and Strategies Explained
3:32 - Missile Launch Images and French Technology
4:39 - Inertial Guidance and Strike Campaigns
6:00 - Defense Lines and European Partnerships
8:19 - FP Missiles Development and Capabilities
12:32 - Russian Geran Drones and Ukrainian Interception
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0:00 - Overview of Moscow Strikes and Impact
1:04 - Introduction of New Ukrainian Missiles
2:11 - Missile Types and Strategies Explained
3:32 - Missile Launch Images and French Technology
4:39 - Inertial Guidance and Strike Campaigns
6:00 - Defense Lines and European Partnerships
8:19 - FP Missiles Development and Capabilities
12:32 - Russian Geran Drones and Ukrainian Interception
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00:00overnight from september 19th into the 20th the ukrainians once again managed to strike at the
00:05heart of moscow to destroy hold on the kapotya refinery which normally produces oil for the
00:10moscow region and we know that the two main crude oil distillation units caught fire so
00:15much so that the refinery stopped processing crude oil and that represented 230 000 barrels
00:20of crude that were being refined per doltenry which will no longer be produced to be injected
00:24into the russian economy which will increase shortages and we also know that in the moscow
00:28oblasts there are the sofino warehouses which are gigantic logistics complexes that burn down
00:34and zelensky explicitly spoke about these logistics infrastructures that were fundamental with images
00:39that can confirm it so what's new as well is the use for the first time of certain types of
00:44cruise
00:45missiles that until now hadn't been used on moscow because normally moscow is too well protected for
00:51this kind of very large missile the flamingo and the second element for the first time the ballistic
00:56missiles which are called pelican which was used in particular to open the way so i'll let you watch
01:01the segment i did on television and then i'll explain all of this to you in what way are these
01:06massive ukrainian attacks on russia last night unprecedented what exactly happened so until now
01:13it was mainly drones reaching moscow for the first time in the heart of the moscow oblast so we're really
01:20in the city large cruise missiles were used which are normally so big that they shouldn't be able to get
01:25through they are capable of going more than 2 000 kilometers deep into russia but this time they
01:31were sent to the city normally this wasn't possible and what we actually learned from zelensky is how
01:36they managed to open the way and therefore destroy the protection systems the radars and so on it's by
01:42using for the first time missiles not cruise missiles not drones but ballistic missiles the big difference
01:48is that a cruise missile flies at about 800 or 900 kilometers per hour a ballistic missile is launched
01:55and it comes down almost vertically it arrives at 4 000 5 000 kilometers per hour are it's very very
02:01difficult to intercept and so probably however uh their range is limited to 300 kilometers for the
02:07version uh that was launched which is called the pelican and so that's the one we're looking at
02:12on the screen that one too i have a model of it that i brought back directly from ukraine
02:16and so it's launched vertically but um xavier so if i understand correctly the pelican paves the way
02:24for other missiles afterward the flamingo missiles and you'll explain to us why the ukrainians name all
02:30their missiles after birds yes that's it that's it well it's the same company that made the flamingo
02:36in the past which goes very fast horizontally and now it's the pelican that goes much farther
02:41they're simply bird names and there's even a third one that was used there we found some debris
02:46it's called the palanitsa and you know there's a lot of talk about the jet power geron 4 and 5
02:51and actually the ukrainians also have jet power drones called the palanitsa it's just that the
02:57ukrainians don't necessarily need them because russia's interception rate on their basic drones
03:01is only around 60 which means that 40 of the basic drones get through and the russians they had more
03:07than five percent of their basic drones getting through that's why the russians had to switch
03:12to jet powered drones which now get through at a rate of 40 percent well the ukrainians don't need
03:17to switch to jet powered drones yet they have a few that they'll use to clear the way like i
03:22just did
03:22here by destroying radars air defense systems and then they'll be able to launch the bulk of the low
03:28cost drones that will get the job done because there's no more defense left to deal with so first
03:33it's the pelican uh then the low cost drones so we have an image i'll give you the floor in
03:38a moment
03:39michelle but we have an image we just received xavier which has just been made official by the
03:43by the ukrainians look this is the image probably from last night of a flamingo missile am i wrong then
03:50those are the flamingos taking off horizontally and that basically is the last thing that's going to be
03:55launched because first we send the palanitsa and the fbfp7 which will destroy everything and once
04:03everything has been destroyed then there will be this missile which is very big let's just remind
04:07ourselves it's a ton of explosives coming in at over 800 or 900 kilometers per hour and with that
04:12speed it will be able to penetrate the ground and on top of that a little french pride here there's
04:17a
04:18bit of french technology inside its ability to fly very very low that's also because there are chips
04:23provided by saffron that allow for navigation without gps or anything like that and to follow
04:28the ground at such a low altitude that russian radars can't see it coming if they didn't have this
04:33french technology they would be flying much higher and some of these missiles would be intercepted
04:39i wonder if you have something to do with it uh well no but then there's pelican
04:42so michelle goya you're staying with us of course but uh the other name of these pelican missiles
04:50is fb fb7 that's it fp for firepoint that's the company you know that makes firepoint seven there
04:55you go uh yes so let me clarify indeed saffron provides especially everything related to inertial
05:01guidance it's the best in the world you have to know that really saffron a french company that
05:06manufactures what is the best in the world according to you this is what we call inertial guidance
05:12inertial guidance explain it to us with inertial guidance there's no need for a satellite link or
05:18anything like that it works on its own you have something that's programmed inside the missile or
05:22the drone well maybe calling it a drone is a bit too low cost and it actually needs to be
05:25quite
05:25expensive but at least for uh missiles or guided bombs the french guided bombs that we provide
05:30they are extremely precise thanks to that uh it's the highest precision in the world the americans are
05:35far behind in this area so we sell it to a lot of people by providing it to the ukrainians
05:40already
05:40by supplying it to the ukrainians already and then well that's more for us you know but for you it's
05:44very
05:45good what they've done i mean strategically speaking opening the way with what they did
05:48they still know how to organize strike campaigns salvos of strikes in a very uh let's say uh complex
05:55way that is they combine very different means to achieve something very effective so they open the
06:01way with these systems that's it you have a first barrier that's right at the border if you like
06:04you have all the defense system at the border of russia that's the first line of russian defense there
06:09you go it's uh it's the along the front in ukraine and along the russian border okay
06:12there uh you have a first line of defense if you like but once you've passed that line uh well
06:17it's
06:17basically empty you know russia it's basically empty so the russians can't defend everything so
06:22they defend the critical points the capital etc but for the rest well once you've passed that first
06:26barrier the way is almost clear so the way is clear up to the objective pretty much uh and that's
06:30it
06:30and these fp7 missiles they're used precisely to open the way through this first line of defense
06:34yes i have a question to ask i'm not sure if it's for xavier titalman or michelle goya
06:39the best one about the role of saffron because what you're telling us is very interesting so
06:45saffron if i understood correctly provides this inertial system that allows well the missiles not
06:52to be detected but are we in the context of a supplier client relationship meaning the ukrainians say
06:58we we need this provide it to us or are we in a co-production arrangement as is very often
07:04the case in
07:04europe where a large number of weapon systems especially in missiles are produced with partners
07:10from several countries not here we are completely uh well we are the supplier we are the clients
07:17well they are the clients we sell them equipment in the same way that israelis uh will sell raptor
07:23cameras to put under drones there are a lot of countries that sell to ukraine that's why we've
07:28already sold several billion in gold to france considering everything we've given and all the efforts
07:32we've sold more than three billion euros worth of equipment to ukraine say how it serves radars
07:38this type of navigation system there are really a lot of them and um on the other hand there's a
07:43partnership with mbda and firepoint we know they're working together on a number of systems
07:48we know there's dasso in germany we know there's leonardo in italy we know that a number of countries
07:53are involved to help the ukrainians especially as michelle was saying so that the fp7 can be effective
07:59as an interceptor because making ballistic missiles i'm not going to say it's easy but it's almost
08:03easy what's complicated is making interceptors from that same missile now so we know that there
08:09are partnerships that are completely uh proven and open and we will be co-producers of the
08:15interceptor system but we are simply suppliers of subcomponents for the ballistic attack destruction
08:20system but uh xavier titelman this fp7 missile so this pelican missile it was developed by firepoint
08:26by the ukrainians five times faster than the europeans why because it's it's five times longer
08:32i i would be proud no we're actually much much slower than that because the time so i'll give
08:36you a behind the scenes anecdote that the ceo of the company gave me the time it takes for their
08:41entire project to come together from the moment they say they're going to do it to the moment they
08:45make the first launches toward russia france and safran still hadn't managed to get the authorization
08:51the signature to be able to supply the famous subcomponent we just talked about yes so our
08:57administrative slowness meant that the first generations of the flamingo were less effective
09:01than those that arrived starting from the beginning of summer and so there was administrative slowness
09:07in europe and in france which meant they could have gone much faster and yes today it would be in
09:13our best interest to form industrial partnerships to make exchanges and so that france can be equipped
09:18with these types of systems that are very effective while we wait maybe in three to five years to have
09:23sovereign systems of our own but for now we have gaps in our capabilities and it might indeed be
09:28interesting to be able to obtain acquire the kinds of systems the germans are negotiating for so that
09:33we could possibly use them while waiting to become fully autonomous in this field so as you understand
09:38missiles like the flamingo will fly very fast horizontally they go between 700 and 900 kilometers per hour
09:44950 kilometers per hour in the final descending phase and they fly just a few meters above the
09:48ground which means you normally need radar planes to be able to see them coming and that's a good
09:52thing the russians only have four radar planes left because the ukrainians have destroyed many of them
09:57and even from the start the russians didn't have that many and so this new generation of ballistic
10:01missiles so there you go actually i have the small scale model right here this one is the fpfp-7
10:07this one
10:08has a range of about 300 kilometers it carries a military payload of 150 kgs it will reach at this
10:15an altitude of 65 kilometers and when it comes back down it will descend at 1500 meters per second
10:21econ so it's absolutely gigantic obviously that's more and it's this missile that's been transformed
10:27with the freya project to also make it an interceptor so that the ukrainians no longer have to rely on
10:33patriot missiles and astor 30 missiles for their air defense against ballistic missiles which are the
10:39most difficult to intercept the second missile that the ukrainians are making is called the fpfp-9
10:45that's it but much bigger and at that point they will be able to reach moscow it's no longer 1500
10:51meters per second econ it's 2002 it's not 150 kg of payload it's 850 kg of military payload and it's
10:59an
11:00even higher altitude because it's going to come down almost vertically so here i almost want to say
11:05for once it would once again be a sufficiently strategic weapon to inflict irreparable damage
11:10on critical infrastructure including very solid bunkers buried very deep underground so this is
11:16really a weapon that could have significant effects on headquarters and on certain factories that
11:20for now the ukrainians can't hit with the equipment they have and that that should normally arrive at
11:26the end of the year once again it's a matter of production time i told you the fp-7 so
11:30the pelican
11:31that's its other name has been tested about 15 times and there those were the first operational
11:36uses on russian territory and not just on occupied ukraine the fp-9 that's progressing well and i'll
11:43remind you of something that's often forgotten firepoint this company managed to put two small
11:48satellites into orbit so that means they have capabilities that far exceed ballistic missiles i don't know
11:54exactly what they're doing with these satellites we can imagine that for example if they send drones
11:58and missiles if they want to have a video feed they can connect to starlink so maybe they're putting up
12:02small temporary satellites that don't necessarily go to altitudes to stay in orbit for a very long time
12:07but maybe that allows them to have a video feed from certain drones and to be able to control them
12:11all the way to impact in any case that's the kind of mission i imagine uh for this kind of
12:16very high
12:17quality equipment but firepoint it's something that goes way beyond small drones cruise missiles ballistic
12:22missiles now even space obviously they are involved in everything related to communication
12:27and video feedback systems to make their system effective on the front as well now we're going
12:31to watch a second short part of the video about specifically the flip side what the russians are
12:37doing with the garant 4 and garant 5 systems with especially these missiles because in the end
12:42they're jet-powered shahed drones so the garant 4 and garant 5 and finally we're starting to see
12:48solutions on the ukrainian side to intercept them i'll leave you with the second part of my segment
12:52on lci xavier staying for a moment on these drones now on the russian side the geran drones
12:59so these geran drones if i understand correctly they are now uh uh they are no longer experimental
13:06weapons at all their weapons deployed en masse uh that's right and their engine is equipped
13:11uh their engine is chinese these are chinese components yes yeah it's not really something new
13:17actually you you have to understand that um it's not an innovative technology these these missile
13:23drones are nothing extraordinary at all they've even existed for more than a year and a half the
13:28problem simply is that the russians couldn't manage to produce them in large numbers so they kept
13:33producing geran and shahed with propellers but the ukrainians had developed interceptors the big
13:38difference is that the chinese and the russians on their side managed to acquire a number of machine
13:43tools they were missing to move to industrial production in the past it said that they produced
13:49about 60 per minute on using general industrial principles when working with forges and now they've
13:56managed to acquire metal 3d printers which are apparently much more complex but which allow them
14:02to produce these jet engines for only forty thousand dollars and at about 50 units per dalton we're going
14:09from 70 per minute on to 50 per dollar and that's what allows them today to launch 1500 jet drones
14:15per minute once so these are colossal quantities which in themselves are easy to intercept if the
14:20ukrainians had just laser guided rockets that don't even cost as much as the engine to intercept all these
14:27systems the ukrainians would have no problem xavier they are easy to to intercept sure but you know very
14:33well that this actually creates an interception problem for the ukrainians it's a saturation issue
14:37it's really too much saturation earlier for example we're talking about ballistic missiles
14:41for ballistic missiles you need technologies that the ukrainians can't produce on their own and that
14:46we don't supply them within sufficient quantities but for these geran that we see on the screen a
14:50simple guided rocket that that is produces by the hundreds every week at its sites in belgium or
14:55france we would be able to intercept these geran as long as we have launchers fighter jets are able to
15:01do
15:01it ground launchers are able to launch these laser guided rockets so here it's a matter of transferring
15:06capability to ukraine for something that once again costs relatively little compared with what
15:12we later have to be rebuilt uh the geran 5 actually michel goya it's very interesting because it looks
15:19like a small cruise missile uh it's six meters long with a wingspan of 5.5 meters it can be
15:25launched
15:25so it also has a chinese engine it can be launched from a plane or from the ground uh and
15:30with a 90 kg
15:31warhead but then if i understood correctly it might be a replica of another iranian drone
15:36uh yes that's possible but uh but uh i think it might be a bit faster than that the geran
15:425 you
15:42know more than 350 kilometers per hour but you have to understand one thing as well which is that
15:46all these devices uh they're much faster than the geran 1 and 2 that we knew uh when you launch
15:53them
15:53from very close by for example recently there was a shopping center a creperie uh that was hit
15:58by these uh geran 4 or 5 but when you're 50 this shopping center it's 50 kilometers from the front
16:05line so when you have something that hits at 600 kilometers kilometers slash air that only gives the
16:11defense a few minutes to try to intercept it so things are much more complicated when you have a
16:17that takes hours to cross all of ukraine it's still much easier but at this speed in itself it becomes
16:23an advantage and when you fire very close to the front uh it becomes very very complicated to
16:30intercept yesterday the ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky released this video of the
16:37ukrainians uh intercepting this small missile this geran 5 drone and i'd like to ask you xavier
16:45titelman since we can clearly see that it has a delta shaped wing this geran 5 how do you intercept
16:51it
16:51it's still a complicated question and it was launched if i understand correctly this ukrainian
16:57drone um from the ground by a catapult yes so the ukrainians have developed a new generation of
17:03interceptors specifically jet powered interceptors so they too can reach 600 700 kilometers per hour
17:09it's just a race for speed the interceptor we see here indeed as a delta wing delta wing means it's
17:15d-shaped so it's really the shape that is currently operational and effective and the geran 5 which is
17:21indeed a russian version of the cara iranian is a cruise missile from the iranian point of view
17:27the russians called it geran as if it were a coherent family but that's not the case it actually
17:32goes over 600 kilometers per hour the ukrainians have already confirmed several times the interception
17:37of these geran 5 at 600 kilometers per hour by their interceptors which go faster and now the
17:43ukrainians are moving on to industrialization but they tell me they still need more than two months
17:47to produce they have to produce twice as many interceptors as the russians produce
17:51offensive weapons so if the russians make 1500 jet powered geran per minute once they need at
17:58least 3000 interceptors per minute and unfortunately that will probably only happen around november so at
18:04that point they will certainly have a better ability to protect themselves but there will be two months
18:08of real suffering with 40 of these russian weapons getting through thank you so much xavier titelman for
18:13all these details
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