Key points
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Fire Point has stockpiled aircraft jet engines and is preparing licensed serial production of propulsion units for Flamingo cruise missiles.
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Used aircraft engines with limited remaining flight hours are being repaired, simplified and adapted to reduce cost and speed up testing.
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A licensed production plant is being built to produce engines domestically from early next year; production will be diversified across multiple facilities.
From landfill finds to licensed production
Ukrainian defense company Fire Point has accumulated a reserve of jet engines suitable for the Flamingo cruise missile project and is now moving to organize licensed domestic production. The company initially acquired large consignments of used aircraft engines that have a residual resource of up to 10 flight hours — insufficient for aviation service but enough for the repair, testing cycle and the roughly 3.5-hour real flight time required in missile trials.
Repair, simplification and cost focus
Engine refurbishment includes targeted repairs and design simplifications. To speed up production and lower costs, Fire Point replaces expensive, wear-resistant titanium components with cheaper, easier-to-manufacture alternatives where feasible. The aim is to maintain required performance while making the propulsion units affordable and quicker to scale.
“There are thousands of such engines; we bought them in advance to have a stock before scaling up. But we need to think about tomorrow: that’s why we are already building a plant under the license of a Ukrainian manufacturer, so that from the beginning of next year we can produce this engine ourselves,” — Fire Point technical director Iryna Terek.
Clarifying Motor Sich rumors
Terek denied media claims that Motor Sich supplies these engines to Fire Point. According to her, the current multi-month stock was recovered and restored by the developers from discarded sources — not produced by Motor Sich for this program.
Toward licensed serial output and risk diversification
Beyond restoring used engines, Fire Point is constructing a licensed production facility to manufacture the engine domestically starting next year. Production and cooperation will be spread across multiple sites to diversify operational and security risks, ensuring continuity in case any single location is disrupted.
