Tags: Weapon.
The PL-8 is a Chinese air-to-air missile (AAM) originated from the Israeli Python-3 AAM (PL short for Pili (Pi Li 霹雳) meaning thunderbolt). Experience gained from PL-8/Python-3 had helped China greatly in developing its next missile the PL-9.China’s PLAAF was quite impressed with this missile and paid for licensed production as the PL-8 AAM in the 1980s. The program was code named Number 8 Project (八号工程) and formally started on September 15 1983.
