The two drones share the same basic design lineage rather than being unrelated products: Ukrainian and Western trade press describe the FP-2 as replicating the FP-1's airframe concept — the same fixed-wing, rail-launched, low-cost construction approach — adapted for a much shorter 200 km range in exchange for a warhead roughly double the FP-1's original baseline payload.^1,2 This article covers the FP-2 specifically: its specifications, its fast public evolution through 2025 and 2026, its confirmed use against Russian and Russian-held targets, and how it compares to the FP-1 and to a Russian tactical loitering munition it faces across the front, the ZALA Lancet.

Fire Point and Ukrainian defense outlets describe the FP-2's baseline airframe as having a 6 m wingspan and a 215 kg takeoff weight, requiring about 18 minutes to prepare and launch.³ Like the FP-1, it is fixed-wing and rail-launched rather than runway-dependent, and press coverage consistently describes it as reusing the FP-1's low-cost airframe concept rather than an entirely new design.^1,2

The FP-2's defining difference from the FP-1 is warhead size rather than range. At its September 2025 unveiling, Fire Point specified a 105 kg warhead against a 200 km range — against the FP-1's original 50-60 kg warhead at roughly 1,600 km — a deliberate trade of distance for destructive payload.^1,2 Fire Point has said part of that warhead is filled with an adapted OFAB-100-110-TU aerial bomb, a roughly 121 kg munition carrying about 44 kg of explosive filler, alongside warheads from other, undisclosed third-party suppliers.⁴

Guidance comes in two forms: an autonomous mode for pre-programmed strikes on stationary targets, and an operator-controlled radio-link mode with a live video feed for engaging moving targets.¹ Fire Point has said it is moving the FP-2 toward optical map-matching navigation — comparing a cheap night-vision camera's real-time imagery against stored terrain data — specifically to cut reliance on GPS and on the costly CRPA anti-jam antennas and GNSS receivers that add cost and remain vulnerable to Russian electronic warfare.^6,9 Fire Point has described running through roughly seven generations of navigation hardware since the start of the full-scale war, with FP-2 test flights conducted at a pace of at least four per day as of mid-2026.⁶

A modernized configuration adds a secondary strike role: Fire Point has fitted some FP-2 airframes to also carry unguided aerial rockets or smaller FPV drones under the wing, alongside the main warhead.⁸ The FP-2 can be launched from a fixed static launcher or from a mobile platform disguised as an ordinary army truck.¹

Fire Point has said that switching to its own domestically produced engines and other components, combined with higher production volume, has let it reduce the FP-2's per-unit cost, though the company has not disclosed a specific FP-2 unit price.^5,8 The related FP-1's own disclosed cost is roughly $55,000 per unit.¹¹

Fire Point publicly introduced the FP-2 on 4 September 2025 at the MSPO defense-industry exhibition in Kielce, Poland, presenting it as a mid-range complement to the FP-1 built in response to demand from frontline Ukrainian units for a heavier warhead at closer range.^1,2 The type reached operational units quickly, benefiting from shared production lines and tooling with the already mass-produced FP-1.^1,3

Development continued rapidly after the initial unveiling. In comments reported in early 2026, Fire Point said it was already working on an extended-range FP-2 configuration meant to retain the 105 kg warhead while pushing toward "full deep-strike distance," which co-founder Denys Shtilerman described as "not just a plan – it's something that is being done right now. It's no longer a project, but the implementation of a concrete solution."⁴ By 25 May 2026, the company said a redesigned wing had let its largest FP-2 variant carry a 200 kg warhead out to 370 km, crediting the extra range and payload to a larger internal fuel tank built into the new wing.⁵ By 6 July 2026, Fire Point said it was working toward a 158 kg warhead while holding the FP-2's original 200 km range, again using an integrated fuel-tank wing, with the configuration undergoing codification by Ukraine's Ministry of Defense.⁶

Fire Point has also faced public criticism over the FP-2's build quality. Robert "Madyar" Brovdi, commander of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces, said six FP-2 drones were needed to destroy a Russian command post at Kadiivka when, in his assessment, two should have sufficed had the warheads performed to their declared specifications.⁷ Co-founder Denys Shtilerman acknowledged the company uses some third-party-sourced warheads and said quality is checked through routine inspection, adding that Fire Point requires its warheads to penetrate 15 cm of concrete without the casing breaking apart, and that an unsuitable explosive filler such as C-4 can cause a warhead to detonate poorly.^6,7

The FP-2 has been used against Russian and Russian-occupied targets since shortly after its September 2025 introduction, with independent reporting concentrated on strikes closer to the front line than the FP-1's typical deep-strike targets.³ On 13 November 2025, an FP-2 reportedly struck a Russian Orion-series UAV control hub at the Kirovske airfield in occupied Crimea, one of the more precisely documented FP-2 strikes to date.³ Separately, the FP-2's most publicized reliability criticism stems from a strike on a Russian command post at Kadiivka, where six FP-2s reportedly hit the target in a single engagement.⁷

The Armed Forces of Ukraine are the FP-2's only confirmed operator, having fielded the type in frontline and operational-depth strikes since shortly after its September 2025 unveiling.^1,3 Fire Point has not disclosed any export customers for the FP-2, and none would be expected while the type remains a frontline asset in an active war.

FP-2 vs FP-1: heavier warhead for a fraction of the range

The FP-2 and FP-1 share the same basic construction approach — fixed-wing, rail-launched, low-cost airframes built on shared production lines — but are tuned in opposite directions.^1,2 The FP-1's original baseline carries a 50-60 kg warhead out to roughly 1,600 km, extended to as much as 2,700 km in a 2026 wing upgrade; the FP-2 instead trades that range for payload, carrying 105 kg at its September 2025 baseline and up to 200 kg at 370 km in its heaviest disclosed 2026 configuration.^2,5 In practice, the FP-1 is Fire Point's strategic deep-strike system, aimed at refineries, depots, and command infrastructure far behind Russian lines, while the FP-2 is pitched at operational-depth and frontline targets where a bigger warhead matters more than another thousand kilometers of reach.²

FP-2 vs ZALA Lancet: two tactical-depth strike drones on opposite sides of the same war

Russia's own most widely used tactical strike drone, the ZALA Lancet, occupies a broadly similar operational-depth niche to the FP-2, though the two differ sharply in scale and method. Lancet is a true loitering munition built around a roughly 12 kg airframe carrying up to a 3 kg warhead (exceeding 5 kg in the enhanced Izdeliye-51 variant), catapult-launched, with an official range near 40 km and endurance of roughly 30-40 minutes, designed to circle a search area and dive on targets of opportunity it detects mid-flight.¹⁰ The FP-2 instead flies a pre-planned or operator-guided route to a designated target, carrying a warhead roughly 20 to 65 times heavier than Lancet's out to about five times Lancet's official range, reflecting Fire Point's emphasis on delivering a large, damaging payload onto a known target rather than Lancet's reactive, short-range hunt-and-strike model.^1,2,10 The contrast reflects a broader divide in how the two sides of the Russia-Ukraine war have approached low-cost precision strike: Lancet prioritizes reactive targeting of moving or hidden vehicles close behind the line, while the FP-2 prioritizes reliably delivering a heavy warhead onto a known, fixed target farther behind it.

MASS Assessment

MASS scoring breaks the FP-2 down across ten components, each grounded in its disclosed specifications rather than a single blended number.

Lethality (80) reflects the FP-2's 105 kg warhead — built around an adapted OFAB-100-110-TU aerial bomb with roughly 44 kg of explosive filler — among the heaviest single-warhead payloads of any system in this batch, and the reason Fire Point pitches it against harder targets than a typical FPV drone can reach. Precision (70) and autonomy (60) sit at mid-range: the FP-2 offers both a pre-programmed strike mode for stationary targets and an operator-guided, live-video mode for moving ones, but neither is laser-guided or backed by the AI-assisted terminal tracking that scores higher on some Western systems in this batch.

Range (30) and loiter endurance (40) are the FP-2's weakest components, and deliberately so: at a 200 km baseline (Fire Point has since floated 370 km and 158 kg configurations, both still unsettled — see the note above), it trades its own sibling FP-1's roughly 1,600 km reach for payload, and its guidance modes describe a direct or operator-steered flight rather than a true search-and-loiter pattern, capping this component below systems built to circle a target area. Portability (60) reflects a 215 kg, rail-launched airframe: too heavy for a soldier to carry, but simpler to deploy than a runway-dependent platform. Sensors (50) and counter-measure resistance (40) are held down by the same fact — Fire Point has said it is only now moving toward optical map-matching navigation specifically to reduce reliance on jammable GPS links, meaning the baseline production configuration is still GPS-dependent.

Technology (50) reflects a deliberately unglamorous design: a shared, low-cost airframe concept with the FP-1, a simple piston engine, and warhead sourcing partly from third-party suppliers. Cost-effectiveness (40), the lowest component score, is a different figure from this archive's separate 65/100 overall price-performance rating shown in the sidebar — it specifically reflects a documented reliability complaint from a Ukrainian unmanned-systems commander, who said six FP-2s were needed to destroy a target that should have taken two, undercutting the warhead-per-dollar case Fire Point's low production cost would otherwise make.

What is the Fire Point FP-2? The FP-2 is a Ukrainian one-way attack drone made by Fire Point, unveiled on 4 September 2025 as a mid-range, heavy-warhead complement to the company's longer-range FP-1.^1,2

What are the Fire Point FP-2 specifications? At its September 2025 baseline, the FP-2 has a 6 m wingspan, a 215 kg takeoff weight, a 105 kg warhead, and a roughly 200 km range, launched from a rail rather than a runway. Fire Point has since disclosed heavier-warhead configurations of up to 200 kg (at 370 km) and a stated 158 kg target (at 200 km), though these later figures are less settled than the original baseline.^1,3,5,6

FP-2 vs FP-1 — what's the difference? The FP-1 is Fire Point's long-range, lighter-warhead drone (about 1,600 km range, 50-60 kg baseline warhead) built for deep strikes on strategic targets. The FP-2 shares the same basic airframe concept but trades range for payload, carrying a much heavier warhead (105-200 kg depending on configuration) at a much shorter 200 km range, aimed at operational-depth and frontline targets instead.^1,2

Is the FP-2 in Ukrainian military service? Yes. The Armed Forces of Ukraine have used the FP-2 operationally since shortly after its September 2025 unveiling, including a confirmed November 2025 strike on a Russian UAV hub at Kirovske airfield in occupied Crimea.^1,3

How much does the Fire Point FP-2 cost? Fire Point has not disclosed a specific FP-2 unit price, though it has said that switching to domestically produced engines and components, combined with higher production volume, has reduced its per-unit cost. The related FP-1 is reported to cost about $55,000 per unit.¹¹