Dec 142012
The things you find when you’re not looking for ’em. For instance, a Martin Marietta Small ICBM, a.k.a. “Midgetman.” Designed to be transported, erected and launched by large trucks, the Midgetman would carry only a single warhead. But by being so readily transportable, it could be scattered around the Western US and would be very difficult to effectively target. The end of the Soviet Union led to the end of the SICBM program in 1992.
This example is not exactly on display… it’s sitting out back of the Strategic Air & Space Museum in Ashland, Nebraska, in a non-obvious parking lot, clustered with turbojets, an Avro Vulcan and a somewhat beat-up H-Bomb.
