Why are we making big fuss about this, This was known since early on, on Hisar project. Hisar A/O would have localized Iris missile, In the Mean time Tubitak would develop Our local missile, Development of Irıs equvilant missile we be 15+ years. Instead, We bough IP for this missile and We get a key technology aka Dual pulse engines with this purchase. This was all publicly known and was talked on all military forums. This is literally shaved a decade from our Göktuğ development program. And More importantly we have no restriction on imports Since We got the rights and We produce it locally and We modified signicantly.
Hisar missiles are large missiles with many mistakes that was made in concept design phase and afterward. They will do their jobs perfectly, But they are not the cutting edge technology of the future. No need to argue about past, Hisar SAM will get upgrade when Göktug program is ready. More importantly, Göktug had much leaner development with clearly cutting edge end result which we should be proud. Göktuğ program is future of our A2A missile systems as well as our SAM systems.