China has released for the first time pictures of the Rafael Python 3 short-range air-to-air missile being carried by a Chinese air force Chengdu F-7. Python-3 AAMs, known as PL-8s within the Chinese armed forces, were bought from Israel in the late 1980s. China has shown a short-range surface-to-air missile variant of the PL-8, but has until now not released any images of the Python-3 fitted to any of its combat aircraft.
Source: Flight International