SNEB
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The SNEB rocket (Societe Nouvelle des Etablissements Edgar Brandt ) is an unguided air-to-surface rocket projectile manufactured by the French company TDA Armements, designed for launch by attack aircraft and helicopters. It is also known as the SNEB rocket pod, and sometimes as the Matra rocket, due to it commonly being carried in pod-like launchers built by Matra.
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- Diameter
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- Warheads
- Laser guidance development
- Rocket launchers, pods
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- Helicopters
- Fixed-wing aircraft
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The SNEB rocket (Societe Nouvelle des Etablissements Edgar Brandt ) is an unguided air-to-surface rocket projectile manufactured by the French company TDA Armements, designed for launch by attack aircraft and helicopters. It is also known as the SNEB rocket pod, and sometimes as the Matra rocket, due to it commonly being carried in pod-like launchers built by Matra.
Two other rockets were developed in the and caliber. The 37mm caliber was one of the earliest folding fin free flight rockets developed after World War II; it was developed mainly for air-to-air engagements and is no longer in service. The 100mm caliber variant is in service with the French Air Force and a few other air forces. Besides France, several other nations produce the SNEB 68 mm rocket under license. In France today, SNEB has been reorganized into the firm of Thomson-Brandt.