Function: The AGM-88 HARM (high-speed antiradiation missile) is an air-to-surface tactical missile designed to seek and destroy enemy radar-equipped air defense systems.







Description: The AGM-88 can detect, attack and destroy a target with minimum aircrew input. The proportional guidance system that homes in on enemy radar emissions has a fixed antenna and seeker head in the missile nose. A smokeless, solid-propellant, dual-thrust rocket motor propels the missile. The F-16C has the capability to employ the AGM-88, and is the only aircraft in the current inventory to use the AGM-88.







History: The Defense Systems Acquisition Review Council approved the AGM-88 missile for full production in March 1983. The Air Force equipped the F-4G Wild Weasel with the AGM-88 to increase the F-4G's lethality in electronic combat. The missile worked with the APR-47 radar attack and warning system on the aircraft. The missile is operationally deployed throughout the Air Force and in full production as a joint U.S. Air Force-U.S. Navy project.







General Characteristics, AGM-88 HARM







Contractors:

Texas Instruments







Power Plant:

Thiokol dual-thrust rocket motor







Thrust:

Dual thrust







Length:

13 feet, 8 inches (4.14 meters)







Launch Weight:

800 pounds (360 kilograms)







Diameter:

10 inches (25.40 centimeters)







Wingspan:

3 feet, 8 inches (101.60 centimeters)













Range:

30 plus miles (48 plus kilometers)







Speed:

Supersonic







Aircraft:

Used aboard the F-16C







Warheads:

High explosive







Guidance System:

Proportional







Date Deployed:

1984







Unit Cost:

$200,000