Missile Procurement: Limit Procurement of AMRAAMs Until the Missile's Lethality is Improved
Abstract
The Air Force and the Navy consider AMRAAM critical to the air superiority capabilities of their current and future fighter force. The services have a three-phased program to reduce AMRAAM's size and improve the missile's effectiveness against current and future threat aircraft. The improvement program is estimated to cost about $446 million through fiscal year 1999. Because of questions about AMRAAM's lethality, the Air Force reevaluated the missile's performance against current threat aircraft the Defense Acquisition Board directed the Air Force to accelerate lethality improvements. Under current production and improvement plans, about 6,600 missiles will have the warhead improvements that are needed to counter the threat aircraft for AMRAAM in the mid-1990s and beyond.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1992
- Accession Number
- ADA253634
Entities
Organizations
- United States Government Accountability Office