Entac missile at the US Redstone testing facility on 29 March 1961
Entac (ENgin Teleguided Anti-Char) or MGM-32AFrenchMCLOSwire-guidedAnti-tank_missile. Developed in the early 1950s, the missile entered service with the French army in 1957. Production ended in 1974 after approximately 140,000 missiles had been built. MCLOS (short for Manual Command to Line of Sight) is a method for guiding guided missiles. ... A wire-guided missile is a missile guided by signals sent to it via thin wires reeled out during flight. ... An Anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) is a missile the primary purpose of which is to hit and destroy tanks. ... // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the height of the baby-boom from returning...
The missile was developed by the French Government agency - DTAT (Direction Technique des Armaments Terrestres) and produced by Nord Aviation. The Entac was designed to be a man portable weapon.
History
The US army purchased the Entac to replace another french missile the SS.10. The first missiles where deployed in 1963, that year the missile recieved the US designation MGM-32A. In US service the missile was based on the M151 Jeep. The missile was phased out between 1968 and 1969, being replaced with the more advanced BGM-71. It was used in the Vietnam War. A TOW missile being fired from a Jeep. ... The Vietnam War or Second Indochina War was a 1957 to 1975 conflict primarily between the Communist Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRVN) and anti-communist Republic of Vietnam (RVN) that directly involved an array of pro-North and pro-South forces, most notably the CommunistNational Liberation Front (NLF, or Viet...
Description
The missile is launched from a simple metal box, which is connected to an operator station. An individual operator station can control up to 10 launcher boxes. The operator manually steers the missile by means of a small joystick, this course corrections are transmitted to the missile via a thin set of wires that trail behind the missile - see MCLOS. Like many early ATGMs the missile had a large minimum range (see AT-3 Sagger) due to the time it took to get up to flight speed and come under operator control. Joystick elements: 1. ... MCLOS (short for Manual Command to Line of Sight) is a method for guiding guided missiles. ... An Anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) is a missile the primary purpose of which is to hit and destroy tanks. ... AT-3A Sagger missile The AT-3 Sagger is the NATO reporting name for the 9M14 Malyutka (little or tiny baby) MCLOS wire-guided anti-tank missile of the Soviet Union. ...
A wire-guided missile is a missile guided by signals sent to it via thin wires reeled out during flight. ... MCLOS (short for Manual Command to Line of Sight) is a method for guiding guided missiles. ... RHA is an abbreviation for Rolled Homogeneous Armour Royal Hibernian Academy Royal Horse Artillery This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
Entac is a 100% organic emulsion produced from naturally occurring resins (treesap) which has gained widespread use for fugitive dust control, the sealing of coal and ash stockpiles, and soil stabilization.
Entac's principal use is to maintain unpaved roads by controlling dust, stabilizing and sealing the road surfaces.
Entac is also used to seal coal and ash stockpiles by forming a waterproof skin which prevents leaching and erosion.
The Entac was developed in the early 1950s by the DTAT (Direction Technique des Armaments Terrestres), a French governmental organization, as a wire-guided, roll-stabilized line-of-sight anti-armour missile.
The Entac was a relatively small and light-weight weapon for infantry use, and a single operator could control a vehicle-based firing post with up to 10 missiles.
The first Entacs reached operational U.S. Army units in 1963, and in June that year, the missile was designated as MGM-32A.
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