chinawhite, i am not so sure about the YJ-8 buddy.
I'll tell you why :
....the YJ-8 was reported to be related to the French Exocet....nearly identical length and diamete.... and in fact the triple control surfaces
of the YJ-8 are rather similar to those found on the U.S. Navy Harpoon missile.
from the same link you quoted in your first post in this page (that i posted on the previous page)
now isi'nt it ironical that China got the Exocet's from France in the 80's (before tianamin tragedy) and also the fact the Pakistan was and is in
posession both the Harpoon and the Exocet ???
and it is common knodwledge that Pakistan and China are arms partners and often share technology...like Pakistan gave an F-16 to china to r.e (but in
vain) in return for M-11 short range misslie know how.....and China is pakistan's largest defence supplier and how the pakistani nuke bomb is based
on a chinese design...and how they both collaborated to make the FC-1 from the Mig's project-33 with russian engines and russian help, etc, etc
.....
so somewhere down the line dont you feel that a pakistan that is capable of lending china an F-16 to try and reverse engineer, also gave a few harpoon
and exocet's too (that it has much more than F-16's and is far less a thing to give than an F-16) and china r.e'd it to make the YJ-8 ..... and
further so because reputed sources FAS and China Defence Today (links to specific articles in perv. page) also point in the same direction ???
Your views ???
- exorcet`s are rocket missiles - sea eagle
uses a turbojet (and thus needs an air intake) 
