Here’s a US intelligence photograph from 1984 a very cool control unit for a Sagger AT-3 portable manually guided anti-tank missile (9K11 Malyutka). This was the dread invention of the Yom Kippur War. Supplied to the Arab armies, it accounted for over 800 Israeli tank kills, according the the USSR.

This is exactly the sort of thing some noble geek needs to track down in a Central Asian flea market and rewire into a PC or XBox game controller. True, it might be a bit physically cumbersome, but it would look awfully cool on your cocktail table.

Picture of the controller with its missile and launch bed, also from 1984:

Of somewhat related interest, blogger Metallic Pea has a good post about how the US military took a tactical lesson from the Israeli losses to this deadly portable missile system, in preparation for the Gulf War:

During our preparations for battle in the months leading up to our assault, we had studied Iraqi tactics from their eight-year war with neighboring Iran and their participation in the Yom Kippur War with Israel in 1973. In the latter, we were told, the Israeli tankers had been puzzled by the large numbers of Iraqi infantrymen who merely ran past them without any resistance or threatening behaviour whatsoever. The ’suitcases’ they carryied provided a moment of pause but, because they seemed to pose no threat, the Israeli tanks allowed them to pass, opting to focus on the tanks in front of them. As a result, many Israeli tanks were lost. The ’suitcases’ were, in fact, AT-3 Sagger missiles. Once they had run past the Israeli tanks, the Iraqi infantrymen would stop, set up their Saggers, and fire them into the rear of the tanks (the most vulnerable area), destroying them.
(Metallic Pea)