SNEB 68mm rocket pod

[Chairborne 09.00hrs]

Can anyone tell me when this left service with the RAF or Fleet Air Arm?



Thanks.

[Snap Ambush]

284 Sqn were operating with this weapon today, from their secret Lincolnshire hideout.

[Jackonicko]

Way back in 1987, 1417 Flight with GR3 Harriers thought that they were the last UK users of SNEB, and certainly Belize (I want to say Baldy Beacon range?) was the only place where Harrier mates got to fire off full cans of SNEB.

Whether they were correct in their belief is another matter......:}

[Delta Hotel]

Chairborne,

I believe that last firing of SNEB occurred on the 6th October 1999 on Salisbury Plain ranges by 2 x 20(R) Squadron Harrier GR7 aircraft.

DH

[sharmine]

I may be wrong as I wasn't a bombhead but I don't think the FAA ever used SNEB. Did use 2" rocket pods which were similar but they disappeared from the SHAR fleet as soon as the Falklands picknic was over. Wessex was also capable of carrying them and went about the same time. Quite something to watch, a salvo shot from 4 pods on vixens.:ok:

Sharmine

[saudipc-9]

What did SNEB stand for?

[SkyHawk-N]

What did SNEB stand for?
See page 107 of
http://www.thomsonderwent.com/media/support/userguides/patenteecodes.pdf

I believe Thomson Brandt Armaments bought out the company that manufactured the SNEB rocket launchers. I think this document shows SNEB being an acronym for the original party that patented the system, "SOC NOUV ETAB ADT" ???. :8

EDIT: Just found this....SNEB = 'Societe Nouvelle des Etablissements Edgar Brandt', I was nearly right.

[XV277]

Any older bombheads tell us uif there was any difference between the SNEBs and the ostensibly similar pods/rockets made by Matra?

[woptb]

Way back in 1987, 1417 Flight with GR3 Harriers thought that they were the last UK users of SNEB, and certainly Belize (I want to say Baldy Beacon range?) was the only place where Harrier mates got to fire off full cans of SNEB
A new weapon was 'created' in Belize in 87, our armourers christened it,"cluster SNEB",all down to worn catches on a SNEB can & a trail of unexploded rockets!

[GOLF_BRAVO_ZULU]

I've often wondered what difference the Argentineans would have made in '82 if they'd swapped their not fully arming iron bombs for SNEB/MATRA packs. Several dots off thread but any clues anyone?

[MrBernoulli]

Not nearly as sexy as the F4 piccie above, but SNEB 68mm works very nicely when fired from a SIAI Marchetti SF260! Good fun too! :)

[Flap62]

Re the F4 pictures. Surely you're meant to fire, THEN recover!
Love to see the safety trace for that little rascal!

[k3k3]

Ah..892...

[The Helpful Stacker]

How about that. The Navy used to fly its own planes.:}

[John Eacott]

Quite something to watch, a salvo shot from 4 pods on vixens.:ok:

Like this? :cool:

http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/photos/pprune/Vixen%20firing%202%20inch%20RP's.jpg