GAO: Tactical Aircraft: Changing Conditions Drive Need for New F/A-22 Business Case"

Kevin Brooks wrote:

"Guy Alcala" wrote in message
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I was forgetting that Hound Dog didn't apply to the tall tails, so they'd
pretty
much have to be on the deck, or else come in late to bounce the rubble.

IAPR indicates that the tall tails did indeed carry the Hound Dog; the first
test firing from a B-52 was reportedly from the E model,

Agrees with the info I have, but I wasn't counting a test a/c.

and the same source
indicates some of the D models were even configured as Hound Dog carriers
late in their career.

Going by Boyne, he indicates it was just the G/H, but I'm in no position to say
either way.

Another source indicates that, "By the end of 1959,

the Air Force had approved 29 B-52 squadrons to be equipped with Hound Dog
missiles." I doubt there were enough short-tail B-52's then in the works in
1959 to be designated (www.boeing.com/history/bna/hounddog.htm ). Another
source states, "...by August 1963 29 SAC wings were operational with the
AGM-28" (http://www.strategic-air-command.com...ched_Missiles/
agm-28_hound_dog_missile.htm ).

It does seem highly unlikely that there were 29 wings of G/Hs. Boyne says that
peak inventory of AGM-28 was 593 weapons. At two per a/c, that would seem a bit
excessive for just the G/H fleet of 295 a/c, assuming that a certain number
wouldn't be serviceable/available at any time. Anyone got a photo of an
operational tall-tail with Hound Dog?

Guy