The longest range wire-guided missiles in current use are limited to about 8 km (5.0 mi).
A prototype ground-based electrical wire-guided torpedo was built by the Germans during World War II.
The pair of deployed German guided air-delivered ordnance designs, the Fritz X and Henschel Hs 293, both used the Kehl-Strassburg radio guidance system for control.
The first[citation needed] system to be modified in this fashion was the Henschel Hs 293 anti-ship missile.
Large numbers of Israeli tanks were destroyed using wire-guided AT-3 Sagger missiles during the Yom Kippur War of 1973.