Rhodesian victory Rhodesian Army Second Phase (1972–1979) Related incidents Operation Snoopy was an operation launched by Rhodesia in response to Air Rhodesia Flight 825 being shot down by a communist backed insurgent group, the ZIPRA.

However, the first external target hit by the Rhodesian Security Forces after the Viscount shootdown was the prominent cluster of ZANLA bases around Chimoio, in Mozambique.

Hawker Hunter fighter-bombers from the RhAF destroyed another two Mozambican armoured personnel carriers.

According to official Rhodesian figures, "several hundred" guerrillas killed during Operation Snoopy, and the security forces lost only two troopers.

One of them was the SAS trooper Steve Donnelly, who was accidentally killed by a friendly air strike involving a Golf Bomb.