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]

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

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