S-8 (rocket)

The S-8 is a rocket weapon developed by the Soviet Air Force for use by military aircraft.

The system entered service in 1984 and is produced in a variety of subtypes with different warheads, including HEAT anti-armor, high-explosive fragmentation, smoke, and incendiary, as well as the specialized S-8BM runway-destroying munition and the S-8DM fuel-air explosive variants.

In 2018, the Russian Aerospace Forces took delivery and completed state tests of several batches of the S-8OFP Broneboishchik, successor to the S-8.

[4] An armored self-propelled 80-tube MLRS vehicle using S-8 rockets has been developed by Belarusian industry.

[6] The S-8 has been used in ground-to-ground mode against Ukrainian positions at Pavlopil by pro-Russian forces during the war in Donbas on 4 May[7] and 20 June 2020.