It looks fast because it is fast. It is just about the size of an early jet fighter. Known to NATO as the SA-5 Gammon, the S-200 surface-to-air Angara missile has four booster rockets that drop away after a few seconds of flight. Then the main motor reaches speeds of Mach 4, or about 3,000 miles per hour (4,900 km/hr). Designed in 1959, both the rockets…
