Fancy Owning A Massive Cold War Missile?

An unusual piece of Cold War weaponry is set to be auctioned.

It’s an SA-4 'Ganef' missile, which was built by the Soviet Union in 1968.

At three metres wide and nine metres long, it's a mammoth piece of equipment - and now, it's ended up in a barn in rural Sussex in search of a new owner.

Rupert Van Der Werff, the Director at Summers Place Auctions, told us the story behind this highly-unusual sale:

"It's a complicated story. The missile originally went to the Czech Republic, as it belonged to its engine designer."

"He sadly passed away, and the solicitor handling his estate contacted us wondering if we'd be interested in selling his collection because he kept one or two of each of the things he was involved in designing."

It was part of the Soviets' Cold-War arsenal, and it's exactly for that reason that it's such an important collectors' item.

"It looks like a Thunderbird. Anyone with even a little bit of imagination surely has to be entranced by something like this."

The missile, which is decommissioned and can't be reactivated, goes under the hammer on March 21.

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