AGM-28 Hound Dog
| AGM-28 Hound Dog | |
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| General Information | |
| Type | Air-to-surface missile |
| Manufacturer | North American |
| development | 1957 |
| Technical specifications | |
| length | 12.95 m |
| diameter | 710 mm |
| Combat weight | 4,500 kg |
| span | 3,660 mm |
| drive | 1 × Turbojet J52 |
| speed | Mach 2.1 |
| Range | 1,100 km |
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| Target location | INS + TERCOM |
| Warhead | W-28 nuclear warhead , 1.1 MT |
| Weapon platforms | B-52 Stratofortress |
| Lists on the subject | |
The North American AGM-28 Hound Dog (former designation: GAM-77 ) was an air-to-surface guided missile and from 1957 the first cruise missile of the US Air Force to carry a nuclear weapon . The name Hound Dog comes from Elvis Presley's version of the song Hound Dog . It was developed with the then new B-52 to prevent the bomber from flying over strongly defended targets. The missile had delta wings and canards as control surfaces. As engine a served Turbojet type Pratt & Whitney J52 with 33 kN thrust. About 700 missiles were made.
Development began in 1957 under the project name Weapon System 131B (in German: Waffensystem 131B ) after North American had successfully won the tender. The prototype flew under its own power for the first time in April 1959, and operational readiness was established in December 1959. The B-52 could carry two of these missiles.
The missiles used an inertial navigation system and were able to fly a programmed path of up to 1,100 km. In the variant GAM-77A, the control was improved and a radar altimeter was used, which enabled navigation via ground tracking ( TERCOM ). This was reported ready for use from September 1961. In June 1963, the missiles were officially designated AGM-28A and AGM-28B.
Originally, the AGM-28 was supposed to be replaced by the AGM-48 Skybolt in 1965 , which however was not fully developed. Finally it was replaced from 1972 by the AGM-69 SRAM . The last AGM-28 were withdrawn by the emergency services in 1976.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ AGM-28 cruise missile. (No longer available online.) Atomwaffena-z.info, November 2007, archived from the original on March 11, 2012 ; Retrieved November 20, 2012 .
- ↑ GAM-77 Hound Dog. (No longer available online.) Boeing.com, archived from the original on November 14, 2007 ; Retrieved November 20, 2012 .
- ^ North American AGM-28B Hound Dog. (No longer available online.) Nationalmuseum.af.mil, August 27, 2009, archived from the original on November 15, 2007 ; Retrieved November 20, 2012 .
- ↑ AGM-28A Hound Dog. fas.org, June 2, 1997, accessed November 20, 2012 .
- ^ Hound Dog in the Encyclopedia Astronautica , accessed November 20, 2012.
- ^ North American GAM-77 / AGM-28 Hound Dog. designation-systems.net, September 24, 2002, accessed November 20, 2012 .