By: katyusha - 28th January 2006 at 11:20
… but wrong !
SNEB means ‘Societe Nouvelle des Etablissements Edgar Brandt’. If I dare writing it with french accents, as your browser may not read them: Société Nouvelle des Etablissements Edgar Brandt.
You can see below the history of this company til now. So-called SNEB rockets, Brandt rockets, Thomson rockets are the same, produced in France since 1950, just the company changed name. The only synergy in airborne rockets was in 1988 when Thomson bought Belgium co ‘Forges de Zeebruge’ (actually located in Herstal, not in Zeebrugge) and added its FZ 2.75″ licence poduced rocket assortment to its own ‘catalogue’. The company is now TDA Armements, a JV between Thales and EADS.
By: mike currill - 2nd March 2004 at 14:18
I knew someone would have the answer.
By: Distiller - 2nd March 2004 at 12:28
I could mean “Societe Nationale des explosifs de Boulogne”. Those rockets were designed by the Hotchkiss company and that had a large outfit at Boulogne-Baillancourt west of Paris.
Anyway that stuff is made by “TDA Armements SAS”, a jointventure of EADS and Thales.
By: Eric Mc - 2nd March 2004 at 10:20
Post war the French aircraft industry was nationalised and split into geographical regions for no real logical reasons apart from civil service administrative ones. Thus you got:
Sud Est (South East) – later Sud Aviation
Nord Est (North East) – later Nord Aviation
Is SNEB an abbreviation of Sud/Nord-Est?
All ended up amalgamated into Aerospatiale in 1970.
By: mike currill - 2nd March 2004 at 09:58
I think you’ll find that sneb was the name of a manufacturer
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