Tags: Weapon.
PL-2 and its derivatives are members of a series of Chinese air-to-air missiles (AAM) originated from the former-Soviet Vympel K-13 AAM with PL short for Pili (Pi Li 霹雳) meaning thunderbolt. Unlike PL-2 itself the second Chinese AAM most of derivatives of PL-2 failed to enter mass production with the exception of infrared guided PL-5.