We should be able to make our own missiles and produce lots of it, otherwise if war breaks out we will empty our missile stock quickly.
I think for now we should prefer missile purchase that include ToT.
Like from Turkey, hopefully we can get some significant ToT from BM, SAM, AShM.
Turkey will be a top 5 weapons exporter in a decade or so. My fear is that as their reputation grows, so will their price tag.
The best way forward is to create a comprehensive missile manufacturing program. We should reach out to countries under sanctions that needed money like North Korea and Iran, propose them to manufacture their missiles here in return for money. Like lots of money (Russia pays in gold for Shahed manufacturing in their country).
The biggest obstacles for our missile industry is the propulsion and guidance. We are so backward in this regard. Iran or NorKo would happily sold us their older liquid fueled propulsion tech (based on Scud/Hwasong/Seijil motor) + the manufacturing tools if the price is right and it will still be light years ahead than whatever BRIN is experimenting with their ECX series liquid fueled motor.
My hope is not that we could build ballistic missiles, but a lot of ballistic missiles. Like 500 missiles per month (if possible).
We have seen how easy it is for Iran to spam 100+ ballistic missiles and overwhelm Israeli AD. I want to see the same here.
