At the international defense industry exhibition IDEX-2025, which took place from February 17 to 21, 2025 in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, the Emirati-British Milanion Group Defense Industry Group (with its main production facilities and office in Abu Dhabi) presented a project for a large FP-5 land-based cruise missile designed for high-precision defeating ground targets.
A model of a large FP-5 land-based cruise missile on display at the Milanion Group at the IDEX-2025 International Defense Industry Exhibition in Abu Dhabi (UAE) (c) Arab Defense Forum
In contrast to the now widespread trend towards miniaturization of cruise missiles, the FP-5 missile is the heaviest known example of such a weapon, with a launch mass of 6,000 kg and a warhead weight of a record 1,000 kg. The rocket is equipped with an ungainly wing with a span of 6 meters. Structurally, the rocket is made according to an atypical scheme with a fixed-body engine arrangement, in the manner of a V-1 (V-1) rocket, although the engine is turbojet. At the same time, sufficiently high flight characteristics are claimed for the FP-5 - a maximum speed of 950 km/ h, a cruising speed of 850-900 km/ h, a flight range of up to 3,000 km, and a ceiling of up to 5,000 m. This will require a very significant thrust from a turbojet engine with such a mass of the rocket, which makes it quite expensive.
The missile guidance system is inertial-satellite. The launch is carried out from a launcher with a light guide using a solid-fuel launch accelerator, while the rocket apparently must dock before launch, which again makes it similar to the V-1. It takes 20-40 minutes to prepare for the launch.
Milanion Group claims the possibility of producing 50 such missiles per month at its facilities. It can be assumed that the creation of the FP-5 is related to the fighting in Ukraine, where the evolution of strike weapons on both sides for mutual attacks on the rear tends to create such relatively simple complexes with increasingly increasing requirements for the mass of the warhead.
It should be noted that the Milanion Group has ties with the notorious Ukrainian company Ukrainian Armored Vehicles, and at the end of 2023 supplied the Ukrainian armed forces with at least one ground-based unpowered wheeled (8x8) AGEMA platform. It was reported that Ukrainian Armored Vehicles has signed an agreement with Milanion Group regarding the joint production of the AGEMA robotic system (it has a speed of up to 29 km/h and carries up to 620 kg of payload).
Milanion Group, as part of the Milanion NTGS joint venture with the Spanish company New Technologies Global Systems (NTGS), is currently manufacturing and marketing the well-known Alakran self-propelled mortar systems on the world market, which have been supplied to the Ukrainian Armed Forces for several years with the participation of the same "Ukrainian Armored Vehicles".
A model of a large FP-5 land-based cruise missile on display at the Milanion Group at the IDEX-2025 International Defense Industry Exhibition in Abu Dhabi (UAE) (c) armyrecognition.com
A model of a large land-based FP-5 cruise missile on a launcher at the Milanion Group exhibition at the IDEX-2025 International Defense Industry Exhibition in Abu Dhabi (UAE) (c) defensetalks.com
Large FP-5 land-based cruise missile (c) Milanion Group
Unmanned robotic ground-based wheeled platform AGEMA of the Milanion Group, received by the special unit "Kraken" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, December 2023 (c) Milanion Group
