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Midsection propulsion is not preferred but a neccessity when you employ wire/ fiberwire guidance support into your missiles. That are TOW, Eryx and Milan with simple electric wires, Spike and MMP with Fiberoptic cables. This powering increases complexity and expenses. Both of Javelin and Kornet have aft propulsion!

Your argument does not dissuade from the advantages of having midsection propulsion, also, Kornets flight motor is midsection as it is beam riding missile just like TOW.

Also, i suggest you look up next generation of France's Air Launched ATGM 'MLP/EMM ' which is R/F data-linked with midsection propulsion.
 
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Biggest issue I see so far with missile development is lack of research into midsection rocket propulsion, midsection propulsion allows for light weight compact missiles with excellent range and stability..

Roketsan should take TOW, ERYX, Kornet-E and Spike missiles apart piece by piece, learn and reverse engineer them for a unique midsection propulsion system..

Current propulsion system used by Roketsan elongates missile more than necessary..

This is why I am asking. Karaok looks more like a very longe range ATM. But it has only 2 km range. Missile has a to long size.
 
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This is why I am asking. Karaok looks more like a very longe range ATM. But it has only 2 km range. Missile has a to long size.

Pictures can distort sizes, it's best to compare objects by knowing the size of one of them.

If we take this image below, we can determine KaraOk is around same length as MAM-C and almost double the diameter

So, I'd guess
Diameter: *120mm
Length: *980mm
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Cabatli quoted a range of 2km because that is what was written in defence magazines from official sources, it's been a while since then, so the range could have increased.. We don't know yet..
 
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Is it a different project from Hisar-U ?
or GUMS was officially announced.
 
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Is it a different project from Hisar-U ?
or GUMS was officially announced.
I don't think that SIPER is Hisar-U, maybe GUMS or SAMP/T (Eurosam)
Most probably we are talking about GUMS as the initial version of Hisar U will not be capable of intercepting ballistic missiles as far as I am following the news related to it.
 
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