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What’s the earliest point at which you can develop and deploy effective wire-guided munitions? I’m talking about both missiles (rockets) and torpedoes.
Apparently, there was an American fellow who produced a wire-guided torpedo in the 1870s, but that torpedo’s only instance of combat usage seems to have ended badly. He later designed an improved version of that torpedo, but it doesn’t seem to have seen any action.