MGM-134 Midgetman

The MGM-134 Midgetman, officially the Small Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, was a single warhead, road mobile intercontinental ballistic missile developed by the United States Air Force in the 1980s to survive a first strike better than missiles in fixed silos. In December 1986 Martin Marietta was given the go-ahead to develop the XMGM-134A, a solid-fueled missile with three rocket motors, about 14 metres long, that was ejected from its canister by gas pressure before its first motor ignited. It was to ride on a hardened mobile launcher vehicle and carry a single nuclear warhead in a reentry vehicle over a range of about 11,000 kilometres. The first launch in May 1989 was only partly successful, and the first successful test flight followed in April 1991. With the end of the Cold War the development effort was terminated in January 1992.