Seeing the success of earlier jets and the development of the afterburner, the head of the Centrian Air Force Engineering Department made the decision to finally include a jet aircraft on the MT lineup of Airforce Representative Aircraft. The MT 8 or more commonly known by ground crew as Dust-Eater (the placement of the inlet made it easy for dust and pebbles to get sucked into the jet engine causing a lot of extended maintenance times at best and an early retirement of the engine at worst) is an Agile and fast jet of the time. Due to it's robust flight characteristics, it can be equipped with heavy dumb bombs making it a multirole Jet Aircraft. This jet will continue to serve for 50 years and remained as a replacement of the MT9 during the MT9 Abolishment but largely got overshadowed by the duo of MT 10 and A/F 3 aircrafts. It is also called the bleeding dart by pilots who flew on formation with it due to the use of red paint on a lot of parts.