Rusty wrote:


Pat Flannery wrote:

What ever happened to the "Buck Duck", "Cannon Ball" or the "Ding
Dong"?

"Buck Duck" died the True Death when the airplane it was supposed to decay
for, the B-36, was phased out of service 'bout '57.

Cannon Ball diaappeared when the Rascally French showed that you could make
an anti-tank guided missile that was small enough for a couple of guys to
hump around, didn't radiate RF all over the battlefield (Thereby giving
away the guidance team's position) and only required one operator to guide
it, rather than 2. The Army bought Nord SS.10s, ENTACs, and SS.11s
instead.

Ding Dong was another name for the AIR-2 Genie unguided nuclear Air-to-Air
rocket.

It's great to see you drinking from the DTIC firehose, Rusty.
Now - if we could just get them to rationalize their bizarre hardcopy rules.
(Like, for example, an Extremist Madrassa can order, say, the reports on the
Korean War era GUNVAL program, but I can't)
--
Pete Stickney
Without data, all you have is an opinion