wire-guided

British  

adjective

1. (of a missile) controlled by signals transmitted through fine wires uncoiled during the missile's flight

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Example Sentences

Specialist architects and archaeologists used wire-guided robots to navigate the arena's complex drainage system - aiding their understanding of daily life in Rome as well as ancient hydraulic structures, researchers said.

From BBC • Nov. 24, 2022

The switch in front of the gunner fires an optically tracked wire-guided missile.

From Time Magazine Archive

For example, a laser was turned successfully on wire-guided antitank missiles, traveling at a relatively poky 500 m.p.h., as part of an experiment near San Juan Capistrano, Calif, a few years ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ground forces have Soviet-made artillery, antitank guns and antitank wire-guided missiles, and some short-range surface-to-surface missiles.

From Area Handbook for Romania by Bernier, Donald W.

For harbour defence and the safety of the battle-ship the wire-guided and propelled torpedo will form a second line behind the fast torpedo-boat.

From Twentieth Century Inventions A Forecast by Sutherland, George