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AGM-28 Hound Dog Missile Hound Dog

The Hound Dog [the Air Force lifted the name from the title of an Elvis Presley hit song was designed as a long range, stand-off air-to-ground strategic missile. It was carried in pairs beneath the wings of B-52 aircraft. The overall mission of the Hound Dog was to aid B-52s in successfully carrying out the strategic bombing offensive. This would be accomplished by providing a means of attacking and destroying heavily defended enemy targets without subjecting the B-52 fleet to unacceptable loss levels, and by assisting bombers in penetrating enemy targets by attacking and destroying segments of
the enemy's air defense system.
The Hound Dog missile program began on 15 March 1956 when Headquarters Air Force issued a General Operations Requirement (GOR 148) for an air-to-surface missile to be carried on the B-52 strategic manned bomber. In August 1957, Secretary of the Air Force James H. Douglas telephoned J. H. Kindelberger of North American Aviation to tell him that his company had won the development contract. And on 16 October 1958, Headquarters USAF awarded a Hound Dog production contract to North American Aviation, Inc.
In February 1958, growing concern about both the perceived unfavorable shift in the strategic balance and the increasing vulnerability of penetrating bombers prompted USAF to accelerate the Hound Dog. On 21 December 1959, General Thomas S. Power, Commander in Chief of the Strategic Air Command, formally accepted the first production model Hound Dog missiles in a ceremony conducted at North American Aviation's Downey, California plant. Headquarters Air Force finalized the Hound Dog
missile program at the end of fiscal year 1959 when it approved a force of 29 B-52 squadrons equipped with Hound Dog missiles. The first launch of the missile from a B-52, first designated GAM-77, then AGM-28 Hound Dog Missile, took place in April 1959.
North American built the Hound Dog with a canard, a delta wing configuration, an underslung J52 engine, and a self-contained inertial autonavigational guidance system. The design requirements called for a 350-mile range and Mach 2 speed at over 55,000 feet. The AGM-28 Hound Dog MissileB carried a 1,725-pound warhead, ( 1 megaton ) approximately 500 nautical miles from its launch point at high altitude and supersonic speed, or approximately 200 nautical miles from its launch point at low altitude and subsonic
(1,000 feet at Mach .83) profile. A B-52 could carry two of the inertially-guided missiles A unique feature of the Hound Dog was its engine could be used to supplement those of the carrier B-52 to augment thrust at take-off or cruise. The missile could then be refueled from the host B-52 wing fuel tanks prior to its launch.
Accuracy, while exceeding, one nm at full range, was probably adequate considering the four megaton warhead. But two other problems hindered the missile. Reliability was a constant concern and in addition the two five-ton missiles, carried on pylons, degraded B-52 flight performance. North American delivered the first production Hound Dog in December 1959. SAC launched its first AGM-28 Hound Dog Missile in February 1960; by the following July, one wing was operational with the weapon, although the first airborne alert with it did not take place until January 1962.
The numbers of Hound Dogs in the B-52 fleet rapidly grew from 54 in 1960, rising to 230 the next year, 547 in 1962, and 593 in 1963. 600 Hound Dogs were produced from 1957 to 1963. Twenty-three Hound Dog-equipped B-52 squadrons were operational by 30 June 1962, and by August 1963 29 SAC wings were operational with the AGM-28 Hound Dog Missile. Hound Dog production ended in March 1963 and the number of operational missiles declined in the late 1960s and early 1970s to about 308 in 1976.
After thirteen years of service in the Strategic Air Command, the last Hound Dog missile was removed from alert on 30 June 1975. Nearly three years later, on 15 June 1978, the 42d Bombardment Wing, Loring AFB, Maine, destroyed the last last Hound Dog missile and removed it from the SAC inventory.

SPECIFICATIONS
Span: 12 ft. 2 in.
Length: 42 ft. 6 in.
Height: 9 ft. 4 in.
Weight: 10,147 lbs.
Armament: Thermonuclear Warhead
Engine: One Pratt & Whitney J52 turbojet of 7,500 lbs.
Cost: $609,073
Crew: None
PERFORMANCE
Cruising speed: 1,200 mph.
Range: 785 miles
Operating Altitude: 200 ft. to 56,200 ft.

Missile Tail Numbers and Launch Information

Hound Dog

'A' Model's
59-2791 thru 59-2867
60-2078 thru 60-2247

'B' Model's
60-5574 thru 60-5603
60-6691 thru 60-6699
61-2118 thru 61-2357
62-0030 thru 62-0206

Total = 703

Note: The first A Model delivered to SAC was S/N 59-2794 and it went to Eglin AFB.
The first B Model went to Mather AFB and was S/N 60-5593.

S/N's 60-6691 thru 60-6699 were designated XGAM-77's and were probably used
for testing. They were not SAC production Models

Hound Dog Missile Launches

Source: North American Aviation - Publ 541-L

"A" Models Launched
Total = 52

59-2791
59-2792 - Feb 29, 1960
59-2796 - Feb 29, 1960
59-2797
59-2804
59-2806
59-2807
59-2811
59-2814
59-2816
59-2818
59-2825
59-2827 - Jul 8, 1964
59-2832
59-2839 - Jul 8, 1964
59-2842
59-2848
59-2849
59-2860

60-2086
60-2094
60-2100
60-2106
60-2117
60-2123
60-2124
60-2130 - Dec 21, 1961
60-2131 - Jan 23, 1962
60-2132
60-2135 - Sep 23, 1964
60-2145
60-2152
60-2155
60-2160
60-2161
60-2165
60-2178
60-2181 - Sep 11, 1964

60-2183
60-2185 - Aug 30, 1965
60-2186
60-2193
60-2199
60-2202 - Dec 17, 1962
60-2207
60-2211 - Feb 5, 1963
60-2218
60-2230
60-2232
60-2233
60-2234
60-2235

"B" Models Launched
Total = 66

60-5583
60-5590
60-5592
60-5594
60-5600
60-5602
60-5603
61-2128
61-2130
61-2134
61-2139
61-2148
61-2155 - Sep 2, 1964
61-2160
61-2160
61-2168
61-2169
61-2174
61-2196
61-2201
61-2208
61-2216

61-2219
61-2221
61-2230
61-2231
61-2236
61-2239
61-2248
61-2254
61-2155
61-2263
61-2278
61-2286
61-2296
61-2305 - Apr 17, 1971
61-2309
61-2312
61-2314
61-2316
61-2322
61-2325
61-2327
61-2328

61-2331 - Feb 18, 1963
61-2332 - Feb 18, 1963
61-2337
62-0030
62-0040
62-0053
62-0086
62-0089
62-0092
62-0100
62-0106
62-0125
62-0131 - Aug 12, 1964
62-0137 - Aug 12, 1964
62-0139
62-0149 - Oct 11, 1963
62-0183 - Aug 5, 1964
62-0187
62-0188 - Aug 5, 1964
62-0190
62-0193
62-0200

Until I can find an official list of Hound Dog launch's that occurred between 1966 and 1973 at White Sands Missile Test Range I am requesting that anyone that has information on a particular Tail Number that they know were launched and not listed above, PLEASE
let me know so I can post it. Thanks

There were the following WSMR launches conducted from 1961 to 1973

1961 = 4 Sep 2, Oct 1, Nov 1
1962 = 6 Jan 1, Feb 1, Aug 1 Sep 1, Oct 2.
1963 = None
1964 = None
1965 = 5 Sep 2, Oct 1, Nov 2.
1966 = 2 Apr 1, Dec 1.
1967 = 3 Jan 2, Feb 1.
1968 = 2 Nov 1, Dec 1.
1969 = 2 Jan 2
1970 = 3 Sep 1, Oct 1, Nov 1.
1971 = 1 Jan 1.
1972 = None
1973 = 3 Feb 1, Mar 1, Apr 1.

Total = 31

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