Nord SS.10

The Nord SS.10 was a French wire-guided anti-tank missile designed by the engineer Jean Bastien-Thiry and built by Nord Aviation. Development began in France in 1948 at the Arsenal de l'Aéronautique in Châtillon, which set out to improve the German wartime X-7 design, and the missile entered service with the French Army in 1955. It was steered by hand, a manual command to line of sight system in which the operator guided the missile along its wires, and it demanded a high level of skill and concentration. The United States Army tried prototypes in the early 1950s and then bought the missile as the MGM-21A from 1960, phasing it out in 1963 in favour of the Entac, while Israel ordered launchers in 1955. Production ended in January 1962 after about 30,000 missiles had been built.