This forum makes it bloody hard to share images. Everything is "not an image" or "too large" to share. Anyway it's a pita. I can't load the full images thanks to the stupidly low limits for this site.
These PL-15E wrecks retrieved by Indians were mostly rocket sections and frames but they managed to find a few burnt out seeker heads from the missile warhead detonating behind the seeker section. One of those seekers they shared an image of the manufacturing plate. Instead of 2012, it is 2015. My mistake, I didn't bother checking but PL-15 was thought to have went into mass production after J-20 reached service in 2017/2018 and only known about after photos of J-20 prototypes showing internal bay and four dummy PL-15 training missiles (the blue ones) were shown.
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2015 july is the marked date of manufacture for this particular PL-15E Pakistan used. We didn't see PL-15 until around that period in time. This just shows the missile was in active service in some form well before we estimated.
