Iranian media continues to release confusing reports on Iran’s military hardware.  Recently they reported on a “sokho-24 missile”.  The article jumps back and forth from calling the “sokho-24” a missile, and an aircraft.

In researching this I realized that what happened is the Iranian journalists confused a military press statement.  The Iranian military had announced that their upgrades to the Sukhoi-24 attack jet had been completed, and that they have successfully launched a new air to ground missile from the Sukhoi-24 aircraft.  The military went on to say that testing with new longer range missiles, launched from the Sukhoi-24, will be next.

The Sukhoi-24 is very similar to the U.S. F-111 Aardvark swing wing attack jet.