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by mandevil 685 days ago
The Ruhrstall X-4 [1] had five and a half kilometers of wire 80 years ago, along with a 20kg warhead and an acoustic proximity fuse.

1: Never deployed operationally Luftwaffe wunderwaffen, first tested in August 1944, wire-guided air-to-air missile.