Fact Sheet 92-22
AGM-88 HARM

Mission

     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.

Features

     The AGM-88 can detect, attack and destroy a target with minimum 
aircrew input. The propor-tional guidance system that homes in on enemy 
radar emissions has a fixed antenna and seeker head in the missiles's nose.  
A smokeless, solid-propellant, dual-thrust rocket motor propels the 
missile.

     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 works in 
conjunction with the APR-47 radar attack and warning system on the F-
4G Wild Weasel. F-16C's also have the capability to employ the AGM-
88.

Background

     The AGM-88 missile was approved for full production by the Defense 
Systems Acquisition Review Council in March 1983.  It is operationally 
deployed throughout the Air Force and in full production as a joint U.S. 
Air Force-U.S. Navy project.

General Characteristics

Primary Function: Air-to-surface anti-radiation missile.
Contractor: 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 F-4G's and F-16C's.
Guidance System: Proportional.
Warheads: High explosive.
Unit Cost: $269,000
Date Deployed: 1984.

POINT OF CONTACT:
Air Combat Command; Public Affairs Office; 90 Oak Street; Langley 
AFB, VA 23665-2191; DSN 574-5007 or (804) 764-5007.

(Current as of October 1992)