"Jeff Findley" wrote:

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:"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
hdakotatelephone...
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: Derek Lyons wrote:
: They did - but by the time they did they weren't military hardware,
: they were obsolescent relics.
:
:
: Titan II wasn't obsolescent at the time; it had a far greater throw weight
: than Minuteman, allowing it to carry a very large yield warhead, and
: stayed in service till 1987.
:
:True, but they were still relics. They required large, fixed launch silos
:which were easier to hit than the visions for more mobile solid fueled based
:ICBM's (e.g. Minuteman was to be such a system, but was actually deployed in
:silos).
:

Minuteman was never designed or intended to be mobile. USAF wanted to
deploy a few handfuls of them on rail cars, but that never happened as
anything but half a dozen test runs.

Something called 'Midgetman' was intended to be a mobile system, but
it was never developed and was a completely different missile.

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