OPERATION BLUENOSE AGM-28 HOUND DOG MISSILE B-52 LAUNCH 1960 34412
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Created by the Strategic Air Command, this film documents Operation Blue Nose in April of 1960. On April 20, a 4135th Strategic Wing B-52G crew at Eglin AFB, Fla., launched a Hound Dog missile at the end of a 20-hour, 30-minute flight to the North Pole and back. This test verified the ability of the B-52 and missile to operate in temperatures as low as 75 degrees below zero. The North American Aviation Corporation AGM-28 Hound Dog was a supersonic, jet propelled, air-launched cruise missile. The Hound Dog missile was first given the designation B-77, then redesignated GAM-77, and finally as AGM-28. The Hound Dog was conceived as a temporary stand-off weapon for the B-52 Stratofortress bomber, to be used until the GAM-87 Skybolt air-launched ballistic missile was available. Instead, the Skybolt missile was canceled within a few years, and the Hound Dog was deployed for 15 years until the missile was replaced by newer weapons, including the SRAM missile and the AGM-86 Air-Launched Cruise Missile.
The North American Aviation AGM-28 Hound Dog was a supersonic, turbojet-propelled, air-launched cruise missile. The Hound Dog missile was first given the designation B-77, then redesignated GAM-77, and finally as AGM-28. The Hound Dog was conceived as a temporary standoff missile for the B-52 Stratofortress bomber, to be used until the GAM-87 Skybolt air-launched ballistic missile was available. Instead, the Skybolt missile was cancelled within a few years, and the Hound Dog was deployed for 15 years until the missile was replaced by newer weapons, including the SRAM missile and the AGM-86 Air-Launched Cruise Missile.
In July 1960, the Hound Dog reached initial operational capability with the first B-52 unit. The Hound Dog was used on airborne alert for the first time in January 1962. In 1962, SAC activated missile maintenance squadrons to provide maintenance for both the Hound Dog and the ADM-20 Quail decoy missile. Full operational capability was achieved in August 1963 when 29 B-52 bomber wings were operational with the Hound Dog.
In 1960, SAC developed procedures so that the B-52 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 airbases faster, before enemy nuclear weapons obliterated them. The Hound Dog could then be refueled from the B-52's wing fuel tanks.
One Hound Dog missile crashed near the town of Samson, Alabama, when it failed to self-destruct after a test launch from Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. In 1962, a Hound Dog was accidentally dropped to the ground during an underwing systems check.
In May 1962, operation "Silk Hat" was conducted at Eglin Air Force Base. During this exercise, a Hound Dog test launch was conducted before an audience of national and international dignitaries headed by President John F. Kennedy and Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson.
On September 22, 1966, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara recommended retiring all of the remaining Hound Dog missiles, within a few years. The Hound Dogs would be retained pending the outcome of the Terrain Contour Matching (TERCOM) guidance system development program. Secretary McNamara's recommendation was not acted upon, and the Hound Dog remained in service.
After thirteen years of service with the Air Force, the last Hound Dog missile was removed from alert deployment on June 30, 1975. The Hound Dog missiles were kept in dead storage for a number of years. The last Hound Dog was retired for scrapping on June 15, 1978, from the 42nd Bomb Wing at Loring Air Force Base, Maine.
No Hound Dog missile was ever used in combat, since it was strictly a weapon for nuclear warfare.
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I was a Hound Dogger from 72 until the final mission in 76. I was at Mather AFB by Sacramento, and we were the last wing to operate & fly the Hound Dog. As other bases made the switch to the SRAM, lots of guys with lots of time in were transferred in and we were way overstaffed. Right about this time.of year, we had the last flight and a "wash-out" ceremony when the BUFF landed afterwards. There was a fire truck on hand to hose the missiles down to wash them out of service. Our entire squadron gathered under the port missile for an official USAF photo of the event, and I still have my copy...and even know where it is. I wish I could post it here.
Shortly after I got to Mather, we were hitching a tug like those shown to a trailer & missile, and I was straddling the tongue holding it up to hitch it to the tug. The more senior guy on the tug started to tell me not to do that because of the risk of getting squished when his foot slipped off the brake. It jumped over the tongue & squished me between the thick steel of the back of the tug and the shroud around the back end of the engine. That smarted a bit, and I wound up in the emergency room. Because we were a nuclear unit, all the big-wigs were worried about having to do a big nuclear incident report that would result even though this had nothing to do with a warhead. I became something of a hero when I said I had gotten hurt playing football...even though the ambulance crew found me lying under the big rack behind our hangar where the missiles were stored and the nearest grass about a hundred feet away. When I used Dippity-Do to mold my hair into conforming to regs instead of getting hair cuts, my "hero" status faded pretty fast.
What a story. 😃Thanks for for your service and Sir.
Back when the US Navy allowed beards, I and many others could be seen "Packing our beards" compressing them to be within the limits of the regs. We always waited until we got off base to comb our beards out! Fortunately, I was stationed with some pretty cool officers and senior NCOs! We also had people using the same technique to pack their afros down!! No one said a thing...... You only got in trouble for it if "you couldn't do your day job".
I just got a message over the CRM 114..decodes as Wing Attack Plan R.
Slow neutron,I told you fellas not to be messing around ,I've been to two worlds fairs and a rodeo and that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard
Bring back so many memories, Loring , Dow and Warner Robins, 66 to 70 uploading these Hound Dogs and checking them out. I would do anything to do it just one more time! That rear pin that attached to the bomber had to be perfect or it would not go in. It took teamwork to upload. Boy, was it cold in the winter in Bangor out on the flight line. Made you work together to be able to retreat back into the step van to warm up. Hand shoveling the snow under the wing was never easy.
Thanks for your service to our great nation this Veteran's Day.
Awesome story. I am glad, I guess, that we don't have as many bases and that the threat is theoretically reduced, but those were heady days. We did a lot with very primitive (by today's standards) technology. Hazzah to you, Cold Warrior!
Thank you gor the details!
3 years 3 months, 3 weeks, 3 days, & a wake up & never got close to a B-52. Hanger rat (44 Grunt) then Combined Systems HI-BAY foe a year & a Half. Yes it was well below zero a lot at K.I. Sawyer But better than Minot or Grand Forks, even Kinchlow. Yup Great Memories. Still go to the Hound Dog Reunion at BarksDale, Damn Chinese Covid Crap.
From 5/16/65 to 9/9/1968 at K.I.Sawyer AFB
It is 1212 days from the start date to the end date, but not including the end date.
I saw one running on the test stand at Barksdale in June 1974. The payload space was open. This was an unscheduled stop of our KC-135 from Little Rock AFB to Vandenberg AFB for SAC Missile Competition. The nosegear gave an UNSAFE indication after takeoff, so we flew down to Barksdale to get that fixed before heading to California.
Grew up on a SAC base in the 70's. We used to play on these things in cub scouts in the hangars where we met.
I rode it while on the "ROCK N ROLL" table during a Combined Systems during a non engine run checkout just to break up the monotony of a guidance troubleshoot.
I grewed up near Barksdale AFB "8th bomb wing" and every day around the clock B52's were coming and going along with KC Tankers, I was lucky I got to witness them close up, sitting at the north gate watching them come in within 150' or less above our heads was AWESOME, I used to think "how the hell can something so big and heavy fly like a bird",
"Soften things up with a nuclear blast." These were the times.
Yeah so all the Buff had to do was to fly over, shit out it's eggs and "make the rubble bounce", lol.
Up to 1.5 Megatons of: "Hello USSR fighter base!" Or "USSR SAM base!" This is when we realized that the B-52s and B-58s, with a few B-47s still in the mix, would be sitting ducks at high altitude.....
The Echo "Communication" satellites help us ID where things were! The reflective surface of the Echo Ballon allowed radio signals to bounce off for communication, but also allows ground and aerial cameras to take pictures of the USSR & PRC, along with other unfriendly places!!
How can anyone not be pleased with the sight of a classic B-52 in their heyday? Just such an iconic looking aircraft. Perfect lines.
Oscar worthy performances from the crew!
Great update. I saw the original version you uploaded some time back that was badly faded. This is much, much better. Thanks! Great hardware!
I was inside one of them at Minot when we pulled it off of static display to restore it,had to take measurements for the hard point lifting points. And this one still has it's J-52 engine installed. .
I was a USAF security policeman at Barksdale AFB 1973-75 and we had quite a few Hound Dogs on base, but I never saw one mated up to a Buff ever. Our 6 alert birds never had them under their wings.
The ground start of the Hound Dogs was to shorten the distance of takeoff during scrambles. (They did Not show this during the movie "A Gathering Of Eagles".)
Later on they made it where the B-52 could refuel the missiles off of their own tanks. I assume this made a 10 engine (8 on the plane + both Hound Dogs) takeoffs much more common, especially since it allowed the bomber to takeoff with a much heavier load!
А я не знал, что Хаунд Дог возят по аэродрому прямо с пилоном...
My Dad is Tony Jurney!!!
+Vicki Jurney-Taylor Awesome tell us more!
Yes I agree tell us a story.
I like your dad's referral to a Chinese fire drill! Just for the record I am not a racist and think that most stereotypes are complete nonsense. However, the Chinese firedrill reaction is very common when an unexpected situation occurs, and even one person is not properly trained and goes into a panic. The panic spreads,and everyone is running around aimlessly, screaming at the top of their lungs,until someone arrives, who can think and act cslmly,and gets the situation under control!
"Is there any chance of fire when I start the missile engine?" What an incredibly prescient question. The replacement for these missiles, the AGM-69 SRAM, was launched internally from the weapons bay of the B-52. It was discontinued specifically due to complications from a wing fire that started (without firing the missile) that almost caused the missile load to detonate as well as issues with the propellant cracking up over time which could have likely led to a catastrophic failure upon firing.
cracking that was a result of incorrect storage conditions for the missiles.
The same thing happened to the army's TOW anti tank missile, many of which had to be discarded because of cracked propellant.
Crews at storage facilities are supposed to check and keep the missiles at correct temperature and humidity ranges, but in eras of budget cuts that often doesn't happen, often because morale is poor among the troops (often reservists) who have the boring job of dusting off the missiles in their storage racks.
Wow I'm sure glad they spent $10,000,000,000 dollars developing those and procuring them.
@@justforever96
They built 1,500 missiles at a final reported cost of 560k each all included. In today's dollars that is over 6.5 billion which I've got to admit is way closer to your number than I expected.
While the specific missile may have been discontinued, they don't seem to have been destroyed and could have easily been used in case of wartime when a nuclear strike capability might be worth the small risk of losing an aircraft. Especially considering that risk is likely less than you'd encounter from opposition forces trying to stop it. You have to also consider that a large amount of the R&D work done in manufacturing this missile was applicable to later designs as well. Either way it was expensive as hell to decide not to use.
Growing up near K.I. Sawyer AFB I remember the B-52’s flying overhead with Hound Dogs under their wings.
Grew up on Kincheloe AFB in the UP.
Man, the stress of that slide projector operator, put the flight crew stress levels to shame!😂😂😂
The guy chowing down the last bit from the bowl when the alert siren sounds. Such understated humour 😂
Just like Commander's Call. Wonderful footage!
92d Bomb Wing, at Fairchild we nothing under the wings of the B-52's until after I left, then the cruise missile arrived, 6 under each wing ready to devastate a city for which it was targeted. The B-52 is a big aircraft 185' foot wing span, about 161' feet long and about 480,000lbs for a combat take-off. We always had them on alert in the alert area, this was designed with the aircraft parking stubs at a 45 degree angle to the main taxiway that went to the 23 end of the runway. Depending which side of the stubs you were parked a slight 45 degree turn out of the stub, then another 45 degree turn to runway center line. We were tested several times a week, no matter the weather, could be summer hot or a foot of snow all over. During snow times the plows would be on the runway 24/7 to keep it clear in case of a launch. Thank God the launch order never came, that is what we were hoping for, but were much prepared for. SAC's motto Peace Is Our Profession did what it was supposed to do. I was assigned to the 92d Security Police Squadron, we ensured our resources were secure 24/7 either the bomber area, tanker area or the weapons storage area, that was our job. We developed a great relationship with the alert crews as they knew we had our job to do, even if they had to lay prone on the hot concrete because they made a mistake. Not one man or woman wanted to see the B-52s have to launch under war orders. If that were to happen we would not be here today. It was collective effort of each man and woman assigned to SAC that made it possible to Win the cold war without firing a shot, conventional or nuclear. 1957 to 1991 without a single mishap, SAC won the cold war, then stood down as a major Air Force command. I was really upset to see SAC go and for the aircraft to stand down off of alert by order of President George H.W. Bush. I missed how we worked, even the mundane tasks were done knowing we Had to be ready with no excuses. I am proud to have been a member of that team, this video of the Hound Dog missile barely touched on the daily life in Strategic Air Command. A huge thank you for those that served with me, before, during and after!
Thanks for your service to our great nation.
@@PeriscopeFilm You are welcome Sir!
Really cool documentary!! 👏👏👏
It would be funny if the film Elvis singing "Hound Dog" in the background😉😁.
There’s a Harbor Freight Tools on the corner of Bellflower and Stewart&Gray now.
Since they were following it with at least one jet, it sucks that they didn't show the dive on target.
Opening line is “This is the Hound Dog” . Elvis would reply “that ain’t nothing like a Hound Dog!”
Pro tip: watch movies on flixzone. Been using them for watching all kinds of movies during the lockdown.
@Kalel Hank definitely, been using flixzone for since december myself :)
A beagle is a hound dog. It's a working that tracks scent trails, or a hunting dog in general (gaze hounds are included). Beagles definitely fall into that category.
First time I have ever seen this video. I was in the second Hound Dog Missile Maintenance Mechanic Class at Chanute AFB. There were 7 in the class I was one of three right out of Basic Training. I was assigned to Dow AFB and stayed there until discharge in 1963. The Samson incident occurred while I was in Tech School (1960). I became a Certified Missile Crew Chief in 1962. Many memories.
Thanks for your service to our great nation.
My Brother was a Hound Dog Missile Tech. his name is Roy Doty, did you know him?
What was “the Samson incident?”
@@aaronvanalstine4287 In the early 1960's a Hound Dog missile crashed near the town of Samson, Alabama after failing to self-destruct during a test launch.
I don't understand how so many people get so butthurt about the timer on the screen. I feel like there are two different kinds of people, the ones who can't watch a video that has any quality issues or distractions, or any audio problems without being totally distracted by them, and people like me who basically see or hear it, and then automatically filter it out and ignore it and enjoy the video. Because i literally wouldn't notice the timer unless someone was whining about it, and there is always say least one. It must suck to be them. Especially living under he delusion that channel owners exist just to provide free content for no return so they can enjoy it without even a distraction, let alone payment.
My sister was Capt. Jay McDonald 's wife later Full bird Col. McDonald's wife Thanks for Korea and Vietnam Jay
A B-52...a friend you can depend on 👍✈️
God this is gold....4.21 the crewman is curious about drag...well sling backs and a jumpsuit would look great on him!
I hope there's some sort of automated system that actually plays orchestral music anytime an activated device is launched.
Ahhh . . . "How the West was won (defended)!". North American came up with good-sized robotic nuclear Kamikazes that snuggled into a BUff's armpit shoulder holsters. Edgar Schmued the NAA engineer of P-51 Mustang fame wasn't part of the project (too senior by then) but was approached during the development of the Hound Dog because it's guidance system was issuing full control deflections 50 times a second in both up-down and left-right axes in flight.Senior Engineer Schmued went out and took careful measurements of the inside of the missile's aluminum nose cone and had the sheet metal boys ("tin benders")(the world's best BTW - in Anaheim, CA) make him one with same internal dimensions but out of MUCH thicker metal.
Edgar had a machine shop at home and also had a passion for reloading and rifle-target shooting. Using all but 5 pounds of his home stash of truck wheel weights he made a nifty 50 pound weight that fastened tightly inside the extreme forward tip of the cone using the existing fasteners.
That fixed it. Flew smooth as silk and guidance only had to correct about every other second of flight.
BTW - I live about a mile from the old Fairfax KS NAA B-25 plant (since tore down) and the roads down here are half named after WW2 NAA Corporate brass.
I bought a buzzer like that alarm they´ve got at SAC as a present for my friend, and installed it myself. At first he was pissed off, but gradually he came to like it. He had to stuff a rag in it later, because it actually hurt to listen, but it was very cool. I bought it in Mexico City. It was the coolest doorbell ever.
But that missile. That may be the most terrifying looking weapon I ever saw.
I like the beagle.
Good lord those b-52s put out coal smoke as exhaust
The crews here and the video of Tall Man 5 5, both all have the same tone or accent to their voices.
Interesting, at about 19:05, an azimuthal equidistant projection map...
These guys have to be the worst actors ever! 😂
Seriously though I love the fact that they were the real deal. Great film! Thanks for sharing it!
My dad was in an Army training film and he said it was the worst damn thing he ever had to do in the Army.
Wow, i just love the delicate pink ground equipment, the colors are very fashionable and attractive, and make a real statement. And they say the military only just started to go woke! 😅
I assume those are actually red or orange and not actually pastel pink.
I like that name 'Hound Dog' They should use that again. lol
Who could resist the line "Elvis has left the building" over the radio when firing one of those things?
Frickin thought he said "hot dog whistle".
21:30 maintenance streamer still installed xd
Nice video. Go Navy
I generally hate the music in these films, but the tune at 15:30 was priceless.
outstanding!
Hounddog heaven..
agm 128 was strictly nuke ground attack - sounds it could've been adapted for extra duty like anti shipping
By the time we were interested in such things, there were better choices available, as AGM-28 was very old tech. AGM-69 SRAM, AGM-86B ALCM, or an AGM-109 Tomahawk (tested but never bought) would have been better suited to it, but the AGM-84 Harpoon was built specifically to be an anti-ship missile and, since it didn't have the strategic range of ALCM, Tomahawk, or Hound Dog, was better suited to the short ranges used for anti-ship missions... and thus was smaller and you could carry more of them on the same airplane. SRAM might have been a viable choice, but it was still larger than Harpoon, more expensive, and probably less accurate (as it was also a nuke-equipped weapon).
@@rdfox76 All the remaining B52-H models can carry AGM-84 Harpoon. 6 per pylon, 12 total external.
2.06 the crew went out to meet it...should be 6 men and their dog ...woof..went to meet a missel!
ResuLta absurda la melodía paradisíaca de fondo, porque contrasta con el poder destructivo del misil JAJAJAJA.
The Clever one is the one who hands out the Black Hats.
Like the pilot with the rebel flag on his helmet. Times sure have changed.
SAC, an Air Force within the Air Force. Or other wise General Lemay's Air Force
Scared the crap out of the Russians. Well maybe just a little bit. I spent 5&1/2 months learning how to fix the DAMN THINGS and 3 years 3 months, 3 weeks, 3 days, & a wake up fixing'em at K.I.Sawyer AFB.65-68.
Narrator almost sound like actor Barry Sullivan.
I like these videos where the actors seem like they actually just went down into the base and said "okay, we need some volunteers to play in this new film" and a bunch of random guys come up to try out acting because it's better than whatever else was up for duty that day. They hang no acting ability to speak of, and are just a bunch of AF crew men. But i prefer that to hiring professional actors to pretend to be military personnel. Maybe they found out that troops could tell the actors weren't real military and didn't trust what they were being told, and they decided it was better to have real guys they could trust even if the acting is cringe.
This, as all Periscope films are important history. Must be taken in context acknowledging their purpose. Still one thing I struggle with is the wearing of hats indoors and on the flight line. That single visual mistake speaks to the propaganda function of these productions. Still it is important to look and listen to the information being presented.
These videos are ruined by the counter clock on every video. Please lose them.
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From the videos 46 minutes mark the LAUNCH of Hound Dog there is a vapor trail just above the Missile tail cone not engine exhaust. Who knows what that is (Besides me)? First right answer gets an ATTA BOY.
An ulage rocket to slosh propellant toward the engine.
@@RIVERINE nope It's Anhydrous AmouniaVaper trail from the Cooling System for Electrical Components on the Forward Equipment Beam in the Forward equipment compartment.
@@RIVERINE It's a J52-P3 Turbo Jet engine Burn 310 Gal of JP-4 in 30 min. At cruise.
@@HoundDogMech never would have guessed THAT!
@@RIVERINE Just one of the Benefits of the USAF 5.5 months learning to work on AGM-28B Hound Dogs and 3 years 3 months 3 weeks 3 days & a wake up at K.I. Sawyer AFB '65 - '68. A million years ago.
just like watching a christmass movie hahaha
I love the crew wearing their headwear on the flight line, I am sure that would just be for the cameras, can’t imagine what would have been said and done if one of their covers ended up inside a jet engine and wrecked it, or do American airforce personnel have a special glue keeping it firmly in place. Did the crews really form up on the flight line as if they were on parade, and then come to attention and dismissed to the aircraft, I like to think that was,again, for the cameras, perhaps someone could enlighten me as to whether that was SOP, r just for the cameras?.
A very interesting and informative film, as always, thanks for sharing, huge thumbs up 👍.
They really did. At least during training missions like this. On ready alert missions, with time critical, they'd still have to each show ID to the sentry on duty, who had orders to shoot to kill if the ID didn't match even if he recognised the man by face.
12:07 why does that guy have a CSA flag on his helmet?
Geo Biery because back then people didn't need safe spaces to avoid getting there feelings hurt
Battle flag, without getting into the worst of it there is a pride issue. The south got beat in the Civil War, the War of Northern Aggression (but who fired on Ft. Sumter?) but these southern boys were proud of their home land and also proud to serve the United States. Growing up in the South when this clip was made I was proud to be a southerner even if the idea of slavery and Jim Crow were things I found repulsive.
LOL, ONLY A DAMN YANKEE WOULD ASK A QUESTION LIKE THAT
What’s better than that? Just guys bein dudes
No Oscar here
Turn on voice
Hound dog worked . It was never used.
@12:00 you can see one of the crew has a Confederate flag on his helmet. Definitely wouldn`t fly today.
weird, edited out the nuclear capability at the very beginning? Has to just be a bad edit but surely odd??
You ain't nuthin but a Hound Dog, Nuking all the time.
24 hour flight? What did they use for a loo? Pee tubes?
Well that DEPENDS!!
I guess that's what the "pilot relief valve" on the schematic refers to.
Why do people talked like that back in those days?
It was a speech pattern taught in some snobby Eastern boarding schools (also used by radio announcers, film narrators and professional actors) called "the mid Atlantic accent".
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Ordinary people even back then DID NOT speak like this.
@@Bert2368 or what we call “bad actors”
OMG a Confederate Flag 😛