Active Conflicts & News Megathread August 22, 2025

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[u/D_Silva_21 → u/AutoModerator]

Lots of launch footage and articles about the FP-5 missile now. Hopefully we see some impact footage in the next week

[u/For_All_Humanity → u/D_Silva_21]

I think that we will know if the FP-5 is really being produced in claimed numbers within the quarter. If they’re actually producing ~1 a day with production actively ramping then they should be able to generate a meaningful salvo about two times a month at least unless they want to use them individually.

Really, salvoes seem like the best option, as you have a higher likelihood of a complete success.

Though, perhaps they’re saving missiles in order to launch several days of salvoes at once, aiming to cripple some sector of the Russian economy/MIC.

For me though, I’ll withhold my faith in their claimed production numbers until we start seeing them used en mass.

[u/D_Silva_21 → u/For_All_Humanity]

In theory they could do 1 a week with 7 of the big ones and a bunch of FP-1 as well. Most likely one fp-5 would get through if they're all going at one target

Will definitely be interesting to see what happens