Here would be a great area from the Elbe to Vladivostok . . . torn up and destroyed, without government, without its communications, just an area of starvation and disaster. I ask you what would the civilized world do about it? —General Dwight David Eisenhower addressing the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1954 The Kakysen-Rowen Plan Employing Only Fifty-Five B-52sA. The original plan utilizing 55 B52s: We are adding two primary ICBM sites per NIE 11-8/1-61 dated 09/21/1961. Even though Strategic Rocket Forces (SRF) Historian Lt. Colonel Sergei Karlov concluded that by late 1962 the SRF had only four active SS-6s at Plestek with two reserve SS-6s at Baikonur and no other ICBMs, US intelligence indicated six possible sites in late 1961, including the following:
 B. Timing is not included in this plan, but once the B-52s dropped below the low altitude P-15 detection level of 900 feet, you can assume 400–450 mph, meaning the planes bombing deep interior targets such as Verkhnyaya Salda and Dolon would enter Soviet airspace three to four hours ahead of the planes bombing coastal areas. Interior bound planes could utilize the AGM Hound Dogs to hit targets, if necessary. Unless otherwise utilized, planes with coastal targets could use the AGMs to hit secondary targets. For example, Bobcat, Sammy, Kadell, and Lance could strike targets 200 miles to as many as 400 miles farther inland if the interior planes targeting those bases were shot down. C. Soviet early warning Radar-P-35M (Bar–Lock 2D E band and/F Band) had a range of 217 miles, so a lower altitude approach would have to begin at least 250 miles off the nearest land mass. D. 4038th Strategic Wing, Dow AFB, Maine, 341st Bombardment Squadron, twelve B-52Gs flying northern route carrying either four B-28FI 1.4 Mt bombs or four B-43 1 Mt bombs (normally eleven in a group but one “trailer” for each group). All planes in this and all other squadrons received Modification 1000 updates that included Hound Dogs, ADM-20 Quail decoys, TAR upgrades, and advanced electronic countermeasures. Operation Chrome Dome began in November 1961 and was preceded by Cover All, Clear Road, Keen Axe, and Wire Brush. Each plane could opportunistically hit four targets, including any of the more than 110 MRBM sites threatening Europe that spread from the Baltic to Southern Ukraine. This plan would have been launched after a failure to open the autobahn by Live Oak or the use of TNWs by either side. The KGB had warned Khrushchev in late 1961 that Kennedy was going to use whatever means necessary to repel the Soviet plan to take over Berlin. Plane #1 Bobcat; #2 Sammy; #3 Kadell; #4 Lance; #5 Crown; #6 Regency
Plane #7 Babe; #8 Mantle
Plane #9 Killebrew; #10 Carson; #11 Zimmer
Plane #12 Riddell, Plane in ReserveE. 4042nd Strategic Wing, K. I. Sawyer AFB, Michigan, flying B-52H, twelve planes flying the northern route. The H models were equipped with the new TF33-P-3 turbofans, increasing the combat radius to 4,176 nautical miles with a 10,000-pound bomb load compared to the 3,550 nautical miles for the G models. The range was reduced in this operation for both models due to excess drag at lower altitudes, but with IFR and with US bases surrounding the Soviet Union, the low altitude required did not affect the mission. H models are assigned the more difficult and important targets. Plane #1 Hansen; #2 Miller
Plane #3 Dunway; #4 Rivet
Plane #5 Kite; #6 Jake; #7 Border
Plane # 8 Lowery; #9 Kelce
Plane #10 Powers; #11 Turner
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