Fire Point CEO details Freyja anti-ballistic missile project
Screengrab from video shared with Janes by Fire Point of FP-7.x anti-ballistic missile launch in June 2026 (Fire Point)
Ukraine's Fire Point plans to conduct the first ballistic interception test for the pan-European Project Freyja by approximately July 2027, Iryna Terekh, CEO of Fire Point, confirmed to Janes on 14 July 2026.
Fire Point's FP-7.X surface-to-air missile (SAM) is expected to be the anti-ballistic interceptor in the pan-European Project Freyja anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system. Fire Point's goal is to produce 2,000 interceptor missiles for Project Freyja per year, it said, with the possibility to scale production as per requirements.
The current variant of the FP-7.X includes a blast fragmentation warhead and there are plans to develop it into a hit-to-kill interceptor system, according to Terekh. “If you have the blast interception, the chance of destroying a [target] payload is very low.”
Freyja testing
Once Project Freyja is finalised and testing is underway, it is expected the FP-7.X will have a maximum speed of 2,200 m/s (around Mach 6.5) as part of its evolution, according to Terekh. “We are targeting, at the moment, the 20 to 25 km altitude for interception,” Terekh said. In June 2026, Denys Shtilierman, Fire Point's co-founder and chief designer, told Janes that the FP-7.X reaches a speed of 1800 m/s (around Mach 5) and can intercept ballistic missiles at an altitude lower than 25 km within an 80 km radius.
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