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Martin Marietta was a U.S. aerospace, defense, space, electronics, and materials company formed in 1961 and absorbed into Lockheed Martin after the 1995 Lockheed-Martin Marietta merger. Its defense work included Cold War precision munitions and missile programs, including production of the AGM-62 Walleye television-guided glide bomb and development of the M712 Copperhead laser-guided 155 mm artillery projectile.
2 weaponsMartin Marietta linked the Glenn L. Martin aircraft and missile lineage with American-Marietta's industrial materials business, then grew into a major U.S. defense and aerospace contractor. By the early 1990s its public identity covered missiles, electronics, space launch systems, information systems, and materials operations, with Bethesda, Maryland serving as corporate headquarters.
The company ceased operating as a separate defense contractor after the March 1995 combination with Lockheed Corporation. Lockheed Martin carried forward the defense and aerospace businesses, while Martin Marietta Materials later became a separate public building-materials company. Period sources may therefore identify older systems under the Martin Marietta name even when later corporate history is held by successor organizations.
Designation-Systems and the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force identify the Walleye as a Martin Marietta-produced television-guided, unpowered glide bomb family that entered service in the 1960s.
Sources: Martin Marietta AGM-62 Walleye, Martin Marietta AGM-62 Walleye I
Designation-Systems records Martin Marietta's selection for continued Copperhead development after early Army feasibility work and a 1972 competition with Texas Instruments.
Sources: Martin Marietta CopperheadMartin Marietta Corporation was incorporated after the merger of the Martin Company and American-Marietta Corporation, combining aerospace and industrial-materials lines under one U.S. public company.
Sources: Martin Marietta Corporation
Martin received the production contract for the Walleye television-guided glide bomb in January 1966, anchoring the company's connection to one of the catalog's early precision-guided munitions.
Sources: Martin Marietta AGM-62 Walleye
After feasibility work on a guided artillery projectile, development contracts went to Martin Marietta and Texas Instruments in 1972; Martin Marietta was then selected for continued M712 Copperhead development.
Sources: Martin Marietta Copperhead
Lockheed Martin states that the Lockheed and Martin Marietta merger officially united the two companies on 15 March 1995, ending Martin Marietta's separate defense-contractor identity.
Sources: A Merger of Equals, 1995 Annual Report
SEC reporting by Martin Marietta Materials states that Lockheed Martin disposed of its remaining ownership interest in October 1996, leaving the building-materials business independent from the successor defense company.
Sources: Martin Marietta Materials 2003 Form 10-K
Martin Marietta Corporation is defunct as a defense contractor. Period records may use Martin, Martin Marietta, Martin Marietta Corporation, or later Lockheed Martin successor references depending on publication date.
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Standalone missiles, bombs, rockets, torpedoes, and guided or unguided explosive payloads.