AGM-28 Hound Dog as a Model Rocket?

[brockrwood]

Just saw a wikipedia article about this now retired cruise missile. I don’t know if it was an effective weapon or not, but golly it looks cool!

I wonder if a scale or semi-scale model rocket has ever been made of the AGM-28 Hound Dog?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-28_Hound_Dog

 

[cvanc]

Hound Dogs were strictly nuclear. None were fired in anger. Effective? Absolutely

It sounds like you might be challenging yourself to make a flying version, I say go for it!

In any case make sure you know about Dad!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM-64_Navaho

 

[brockrwood]

Hound Dogs were strictly nuclear. None were fired in anger. Effective? Absolutely

It sounds like you might be challenging yourself to make a flying version, I say go for it!

In any case make sure you know about Dad!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM-64_Navaho

The Navaho looks wild. Harder to scratch build I would think. Crazy looking!

 

[techrat]

The off-center engine is going to be a challenge. Unless you put the motor into the tail of the body and use the "engine" as a hollow tube, essentially a tube-fin, although for accuracy, there should be a smaller tube inside the larger one for the "nozzle" ramjet look of it. And you're also going to need to minimize the canards as much as possible.

 

[tab28682]

There was actually a semi scale Hound Dog flown at the DARS launch weekend before last.

Looked pretty good. Motor was as in the aft end of the fuse, not in the pod.
The builder did take the easy way out on the pod. It was a body tube with a simple balsa profile representing the profile of the pod.

IIRC, it was 24mm motor powered.

I did not get get a super close look at it, but it looked pretty good in flight!

 

[burkefj]

There was actually a semi scale Hound Dog flown at the DARS launch weekend before last.

Looked pretty good. Motor was as in the aft end of the fuse, not in the pod.
The builder did take the easy way out on the pod. It was a body tube with a simple balsa profile representing the profile of the pod.

IIRC, it was 24mm motor powered.

I did not get get a super close look at it, but it looked pretty good in flight!

One of your texas folks sent me a prototype kit to build, I started a thread, it does have a true under belly pod, but still has the motor in the main tube, maybe it was an early version of his kit. His kit mistakenly placed the canards too far back and had the turbojet pod bt-55 and the main body bt-60 along with a few other things, he's fixing that to be both bt-60 now and on mine I moved the canards up and fixed the couple other things.

Frank

 

[brockrwood]

The AGM-86 cruise missile, now outdated and withdrawn from service, was a cool looking missile. Estes made a fairly decent looking model rocket based on the AGM-86. I hope they re-release it or something like it in the future.

https://www.rocketreviews.com/cruise-missile-rtf---estes.html