Nord SS.11

The Nord SS.11 was a French wire-guided anti-tank missile made by Nord Aviation, steered by an operator who used a small joystick to bring the flares on the back of the missile onto the target. It was developed from the SS.10, entered service with the French Army in 1956 and remained in service into the 1980s. An air-to-surface version, the AS.11, was also built, and United States forces knew the missile as the AGM-22. It was the world's first helicopter-mounted anti-tank missile, fired from the Alouette II, and the family saw combat in the Algerian war, in Vietnam, in the Six-Day War and in the Falklands. A Harpon version of 1967 replaced the manual guidance with automatic tracking along the line of sight. The SS.11 also formed the basis of the larger SS.12 series, and over 170,000 missiles of the two series were sold.