Hound-Dog: This Elvis-Inspired Missile Could've Destroyed Russia

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Boeing as opposed to North American, with similar design, but completely different missions. The Bomarc was air-defense, while the Hound Dog was a standoff weapon intended to be carried and launched from B-52s to against air -defense. They had similar ranges, but the Hound Dog was designed to carry a bigger payload, and had a slightly longer range, so it was probably the 'big brother."

Clearly, you know more about them than me, PO1 Kevin Dougherty! Good info!

Just good at research ... It's a hobby of mine, especially anything to do with US history.

PO1 Kevin Dougherty yeah, All of that is WHY I enlisted...but by the time I signed, we were in that strange time after the USSR collapsed, but before 9/11, when world peace looked like more than a pipe dream.
I remember the 1980s when every other movie and atV show, to include my saturday morning cartoons were hinting at a Soviet invasion.
Those ICBMs and other nukes were the scary part. They were also the worst and last option for warfare.
In the era where I got my taste of first hand war, it was suicide bombers attacking markets, remote controlled IEDs and human shields. So in response to that we made drones to make war into a video game and blurred the lines on right and wrong by assessing "acceptable collateral damage." The responsibility got blurry with a convoluted kill chain to defer and distribute responsibility.
In short, we went from scary cool, to just scary.

I'm a product of the 50s and 60s. Guessing your about the same age as my baby brother. He was born in '63. We grew up in two completely different worlds in many ways. But then the world has changed a lot in my lifetime, dare I say it's almost unrecognizable. I was active from '72--'83, so Vietnam Era and Cold War, and I loved my job, but had to choose what was right for my family. I won't say I enlisted for any grand reason, graduating in '72 with a relatively low draft number it was choose my service, or have it chosen for me. I chose the USCG, simply because my WWII Navy Vet dad told me to. He was on a LST, and many were crewed by the CG, so he had the chance to observe the two services side by side. When I told him I was planing to join the Navy, his reply was "Screw the Navy, join the CG they know how to run an outfit." He told me some of his adventures and misadventures the next day as he drove me over an hour to the closest CG recruiter.

PO1 Kevin Dougherty I take the age comment as a compliment. Actually I am a bit younger than that. I enlisted in 2000 at the age of 18.
The Army and military in general are far apart from what they were when I first came in. The only thing that hasnt changed drastically is the M2 machine gun, but then that gun is perfect.
One of my peers is former USCG, from liatening to his stories and how he tells what operational life was like, it sounds like that is the best service to be in...not that I would trade my Army time for anything, but I give respect where it is due.
When I came in, we were still training to fight the Soviets, despite them having not been around in almost a decade. There was a little mention of Iraqis from the few remaining vets from Desert Storm, but moatly the Combat Vets were from the conflicts in Kosovo, Bosnia and a few other hot spots, but combat vets were few and far between.
Now I find myself in those shoes. Every year there are less and less of us Vets within the ranks. Some of my Soldiers are younger than my tattoos.
This newest generation of warfighters, they are a world apart from us. Where a lot of guys my age came in looking for college money and expecting to never deploy, these kids have never known the US to not be at war.

Jeez ... your the same age as my daughter. You're makin me feel old ... When I went through ET school, we had to learn Vacuum Tube and Solid State Theory. The LORAN equipment I worked on for my first four years was almost all vacuum tube based. In fact, I helped install and test the solid state replacements for the timers we had. In 1974, I purchased one of the first "pocket" calculators. The SR-11 could add, subtract, multiply and divide. It had exponential notation, and could do reciprocals, pie, squares, and the whole reason I bought it, square roots. I paid $350.00 dollars for it, and considering at the time I was working power calculations every week that involved square roots of four digit numbers out to two decimal places, it was worth every penny to me.