02-20-2010, 06:36 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
Posts: 6,507
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Mark, I should have saved the edition of the "Fairbanks Daily News-Miner" newspaper that had the most recent photograph of the GMD (from last year) that I've seen. I'll see if I can get it and any other pictures of the GMD from the paper, which is just down the street from me. The GMD missile in the photo was white, with a "star-and-bar" USAF insignia and "USAF" lettering on it.
On the apparent connection between the Midgetman ICBM and the GMD, there are many other examples of hardware from one program being adopted for another (the use of surplus Minuteman stages for the target vehicles that you mentioned is an excellent example). Also, the Malemute rocket motor, which was used as the second stage of the Nike-Malemute and Terrier-Malemute sounding rockets, was an early version of the motor that was used in the SAM-D, the initial version of the Patriot anti-aircraft missile (which also has a limited anti-missile capability).
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