Martin Marietta MGM-134A Midgetman Small Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (SICBM)

[flateric]

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[NMaude]

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Honestly, that vehicle looks like a prop from a future dystopian Sci-Fi film from the 1970s or 1980s.

 

[moin1900]

Aviation Week, March 5, 1984
"Parallel Programs Advance Small Icbm"
Page: 14
Concept Art:
-Boeing Goodyear
"wheeled truck - trailer HML concept design"
-Martin Marietta
"tracked prime mover - trailer HML concept design"
-Bell Textron
"wheeled/air cushion HML CACX concept design"
-General Dynamics
"10? wheeled truck HML concept design"


Aviation Week, January 23, 1984
"USAF Awards Initial Contracts For Small ICBM Missile Project"
Page: 23
Concept Art:
-prelimilary USAF HML drawing


Small Single-Warhead Intercontinental
Ballistic Missiles
Jonathan Medalia
1983
Page: 38
https://books.google.com
-artist's conception of hardened transport erector launcher

 

[flateric]

(c) Kelly Michals
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rocbolt/albums/72157635992006764/

 

[sferrin]

(c) Kelly Michals
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rocbolt/albums/72157635992006764/

I work with a lady who worked on that wire conduit while at ATK. (Might have been Hercules or Thiokol back in the day.) Showed her the pics a while back. "Wow. I never got to see it installed."

 

[bobbymike]

Honestly, that vehicle looks like a prop from a future dystopian Sci-Fi film from the 1970s or 1980s.

Damnation Alley
George Peppard
Jan Michael Vincent

 

[SCAT-15F]

Honestly, that vehicle looks like a prop from a future dystopian Sci-Fi film from the 1970s or 1980s.

The "Seeker" from Ark II/Space Academy

 

[NMaude]

The "Seeker" from Ark II/Space Academy

That's the one I was thinking of.

 

[Kiltonge]

AvWeek 25 Mar 1985 ( colour ad )

AvWeek 05 Mar 1984 ( gallery of contenders ). Clockwise:

• Boeing / Goodyear
• Martin-Marietta
• Bell CACX
• GD

 

[publiusr]

Reed Timmer needs that for storm chasing

 

[NMaude]

Reed Timmer needs that for storm chasing

LOL! It would be particular handy when hunkering down to survive an encounter with a category five tornado.

 

[fightingirish]

More pictures showing a Convair mobile ICBM launcher concept were uploaded at SDASM flickr Archives today.

https://flic.kr/p/2pHrmPp

View: https://flic.kr/p/2pHrmPp

https://flic.kr/p/2pHkGGg

View: https://flic.kr/p/2pHkGGg

https://flic.kr/p/2pHs1jF

View: https://flic.kr/p/2pHs1jF

https://flic.kr/p/2pHs1it

View: https://flic.kr/p/2pHs1it

https://flic.kr/p/2pHrmPj

View: https://flic.kr/p/2pHrmPj

 

[NMaude]

Those TELs look like something out of 1970s Sci-Fi like the mid-70s show "Ark II".

 

[Orionblamblam]

So like I was just saying, back in 2008...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1799383929415479385

View: https://x.com/UnwantedBlog/status/1799383929415479385

 

[fightingirish]

More pictures showing a Convair mobile ICBM launcher concept were uploaded at SDASM flickr Archives today.
[...]

Another, but more angular, Convair mobile ICBM launcher concept.

https://flic.kr/p/2qqDZJs

View: https://flic.kr/p/2qqDZJs

 

[publiusr]

Low Ri—duh….

 

[NMaude]

Another, but more angular, Convair mobile ICBM launcher concept.

https://flic.kr/p/2qqDZJs

View: https://flic.kr/p/2qqDZJs

It looks like something from a 70s sci-fi production.

 

[fightingirish]

More pictures showing a Convair mobile ICBM launcher prototype (proof of concept) were uploaded at SDASM flickr archives today.
Please notice, IMHO it is probably just a proof of concept, since the outer shell is made out of plywood.
Here an appetiser.

https://flic.kr/p/2qLcHt3

View: https://flic.kr/p/2qLcHt3

 

[markfward]

Has anyone ever heard the why behind the decision to scrap the Midgetman HML at Wright-Patterson? I recall seeing the RFP for that and they required that it be chopped into wee small pieces by the bidder. It would have been nice to be able to get out there and document more of it, for example what the crew firing ports looked like from the inside.

Was it an attempt to keep foreign parties from seeing how to build a survivable TEL for their own programs? If so, why is the other test article still around?