Midgetman missile
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The Air Force Midgetman was manufactured by Martin Marietta.
The Midgetman was a small two-stage ICBM, and was intended to be a successor to the aging Minuteman ICBM force. The Midgetman was much smaller, hence the name. It was never deployed in an operational configuration.
Its design was that of a Hardened Mobile Launcher, able to be moved around via truck and tractor, similar to a Ground Launched Cruise Missile (GLCM). This gave the weapons system added survivability. It could be deployed and moved at will, unlike its predecessors, the silo-based Minuteman I, Minuteman II, Minuteman III.