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Bro, Roketsan and Tubitak has a vast of knowledge and expertise about warhead technologies. Roketsan received help(maybe consultancy on design process) from German TDW at design process but This institute participated design process of not only USA Sidewinter, but also NSM, PAC-3, ESSM, Milan...etc. It doesn't mean that The warheads of all those missiles were developed by Germans.
It is for sure that Warhead of Mizrak family was developed in Turkey. With Mizrak program, Turkey gained high tech insensitive tandem warhead development/production ability. Roketsan developed different variants of warheads (2 type) as well.
The development of Cirit warhead (3 different variant) is done by Tubitak. It is not because of inability of Roketsan on warhead tech. Cirit missile development was commenced and continued by mainly Tubitak so You can see Tubitak signiture many piece of Cirit missile. In following steps, It is outsourced to Roketsan for industrialization and marketing process...
Bro, Roketsan has no background in warhead development. This is a known fact. There is no funding or R&D into warhead development by Roketsan. The warhead that is being used on Mizrak is the same one that is on PARS 3.
Also pictures of Mizrak has surfaced a while ago showing a third country performing aerodynamic tests. I'm sure you know which country it is. Roketsan is doing good, but they are still a ways off. Signing an MOU with SAAB is excellent and will speed up development, I'm hearing Mizrak is having issues.