HMS Warspite achieved a hit on the Italian battleship Guilio Cesare at a range of some 26000yds (14.77mi; 23.77km; 12.84nm) during the battle of Calabria (1940). Scharnhorst was rumoured to have done the same to HMS Glorious in June 1940. Warspite went on to use her radar in the close-range annihilation of two Italian heavy cruisers at Matapan in March 1941,