Possible Clues:

• Rang from no great distance
• For the near future
• Limited in scope
• Inshore telephonist's leader telephoned with a limited aim
• Grant horse needs exercising, but not over a long distance
• Relating to the near future
• Missile not designed to go the distance?
• Type of missile
• Kind of transmission such as wi-fi
• Like some weapons Grant repositioned in land bordering the sea