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C-MASAD-81-7 1 (1981-02-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabbxo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 7 UNCLA'SSO:'ED REPORT BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES REVIEW OF THE HIGH SPEED ANTI- RADIATION MISSILE PROGRAM DIGEST The High Speed Anti-Radiation Missile (HARM) is being developed to give aircraft performing surface attack missions a better chance of penetrating enemy radar defenses by destroying or suppressing radars which direct enemy surface-to-air missiles and antiaircraft guns. The system is designed to detect, identify, and lock on to a wide range of enemy radars and then launch the HARM missile to home on and destroy the target. GAO reviewed the HARM program to determine whether it had met the development objectives that were required to be met before awarding a limited production contract for 80 missiles. GAO believes the HARM system has demonstrated the performance that was required before lim- ited production. Full-scale production of HARM is scheduled to begin in 1982, following completion of opera- tional testing. Major problems that halted flight testing in October 1979 appear to have acceptable solu- tions. (See p. 6.) Other problems and con- cerns remain. Solutions acceptable to the Navy and Air Force, although not necessarily complete solutions, appear available for re- maining problems noted to date. Some remain- ing problems are described below. --A great deal of labor and time on test fa- cilities is required to compensate (or ad- just) each HARM seeker and perform acceptance testing. This is expensive and reduces the life of the seeker. Unless the time required to compensate and test seekers is substan- tially reduced from the current 400 hours, as the contractor and the Navy expect, addi- tional test facilities may be needed to meet the full-scale production rate. Alter- natively, HARM production might have to be Teah. Upon removal, the report cover date should be noted hereon. i UNCLASSIFIED C-MASAD-81-7 '2 '~ -~ ~ Li,

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