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The North American Aviation AGM-28 Hound Dog was a supersonic, turbojet-propelled, nuclear armed, air-launched cruise missile developed in 1959 for the United States Air Force. It was primarily designed to be capable of attacking Soviet ground-based air defense sites prior to a potential air attack by B-52 Stratofortress long range bombers ...
An AGM-86 air-launched cruise missile in flight (1980) An air-launched cruise missile ( ALCM ) is a cruise missile that is launched from a military aircraft . Current versions are typically standoff weapons which are used to attack predetermined land and naval targets with conventional , nuclear or thermonuclear payloads.
B-52F takeoff with J52-powered AGM-28 Hound Dog missiles. In 1960, U.S. Air Force's Strategic Air Command (SAC) developed procedures so that the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress could use the Hound Dog's J52 engine for additional thrust while the missile was located on the bomber's two pylons. This helped heavily laden B-52s fly away from their ...
AGM-28 Hound Dog: Ssupersonic, turbojet-propelled, air-launched cruise missile
Red Snow was a British thermonuclear weapon, [1] based on the US W28 (then called Mark 28) design used in the B28 thermonuclear bomb and AGM-28 Hound Dog missile. [2] The US W28 had yields of 70, 350, 1,100 and 1,450 kilotonnes of TNT (0.29, 1.46, 4.60 and 6.07 PJ) [3] and while Red Snow yields are still classified, declassified British documents indicate the existence of "kiloton Red Snow ...
"The North American AGM-28 Hound Dog was the first air-launched nuclear stand-off missile developed by the United States." There was an earlier missile developed, although it never became fully operational and was replaced by the Hound Dog. It was the Bell ASM-A-2/B-63/GAM-63 Rascal. See for more information.
On 27 September 1960 the 97th deployed its first GAM-77/AGM-28 Hound Dog, capable of delivering a nuclear warhead 500 nautical miles (930 km) from its launch point, to defeat heavy air defenses. Four months later, on 31 January 1961, the GAM-77/ ADM-20 Quail entered the 97th's arsenal.
One of the automatic navigation systems produced by the division was the N-6 or NAVAN (North American Vehicle Auto Navigation) for the Navaho missile system, and the later AGM-28 Hound Dog. Other products included alignment devices and attitude reference systems for missile launchers, artillery, land survey, aircraft and missile-range ships.