{"id":102143,"date":"2026-09-13T02:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T06:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=102143"},"modified":"2026-09-12T09:49:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T13:49:33","slug":"velvet-glove-and-sparrow-ii-missiles-a-guide-to-early-cold-war-bomber-interception-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/velvet-glove-and-sparrow-ii-missiles-a-guide-to-early-cold-war-bomber-interception-tactics\/","title":{"rendered":"Velvet Glove and Sparrow II missiles: A Guide To Early Cold War Bomber Interception Tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4doh-vKOHog?si=-tRuCHAbHAx2qzNC\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Polyus<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 6 Apr 2026<\/p>\n<p>The Velvet Glove was a semi-active guided missile system developed by the Canadian Armament Research and Development Establishment. Its successor, the Sparrow II was developed by Canadair in association with the US Air Force. This is the story of the development of the missiles in the context of their contemporary weapons systems. <\/p>\n<p>0:00 Introduction<br \/>\n1:00 NORAD and continental defense<br \/>\n3:21 Gun approach<br \/>\n5:32 Rocket pod approach<br \/>\n7:54 Nuclear option<br \/>\n8:35 Interception Tactics<br \/>\n11:56 Guided missile approach<br \/>\n14:38 Velvet Glove missile development<br \/>\n19:30 Sparrow missile development<br \/>\n22:03 Arming Canada&#8217;s future fighters<br \/>\n25:08 Conclusion<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polyus Published 6 Apr 2026 The Velvet Glove was a semi-active guided missile system developed by the Canadian Armament Research and Development Establishment. Its successor, the Sparrow II was developed by Canadair in association with the US Air Force. This is the story of the development of the missiles in the context of their contemporary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,7,5,1119,13,663],"tags":[108,709,107,214,433,1447],"class_list":["post-102143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-history","category-military","category-russia","category-usa","category-weapons","tag-coldwar","tag-missiledefence","tag-nukes","tag-rcaf","tag-sovietunion","tag-strategicbombing"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qzt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104766,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102143\/revisions\/104766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}