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The T-45A Goshawk is a tandem-seat, carrier capable, jet trainer whose mission is to train Navy and Marine Corps pilots. Here's Best Training Aircraft - T-38 Talon Twin-Jet: https://youtu.be/LJn4TISBvp0 The T-45A with an integrated training system that includes the T-45A Goshawk aircraft, operations and instrument fighter simulators, academics, and training integration system.  Powered by a 5,200-pound-thrust Rolls Royce turbofan engine, the new trainer featured a compact, providing excellent visibility.  Source:  NATIONAL DEFENSE

The T-38A is a basic supersonic trainer aircraft and the AT-38B is the lead-in fighter trainer fitted with a centreline weapons station for practice bomb dispenser.  The T-38 Talon is a twin-engine, high-altitude, supersonic jet trainer used in a variety of roles because of its design, economy of operations, ease of maintenance, high performance and exceptional safety record. Source:  NATIONAL DEFENSE

One of the United States’ most secret aerial reconnaissance platforms for more than half a century, the storied U-2 Dragon Lady still flies some of the U.S. military’s most sensitive spy missions worldwide. The U-2 is a single-seat, single-engine, high-altitude/near space reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft providing signals, imagery, and electronic measurements and signature intelligence, or MASINT.  The U-2 is capable of gathering a variety of imagery, including multi-spectral electro-optic, infrared, and synthetic aperture radar products which can be stored or sent to ground exploitation centers. Source:  NATIONAL DEFENSE

The MQ-1B Predator is an armed, multi-mission, medium-altitude, long-endurance remotely piloted aircraft that is employed primarily as an intelligence-collection asset and secondarily against dynamic execution targets.  The Biden administration plans to send Ukraine four MQ-1B Predator  drones that can be armed with Hellfire missiles for battlefield use against Russia. The aircraft can employ two laser-guided missiles, Air-to-Ground Missile-114 Hellfire, that possess highly accurate, low-collateral damage, and anti-armor, anti-personnel engagement capabilities. Source:  NATIONAL DEFENSE

The Ukrainian military has reportedly blown up a second Russian T-90M main battle tank – one of the most advanced MBTs currently to have been deployed into combat.  The destruction of the T-90M comes just days after the first such MBT was destroyed in the conflict. Source:  NATIONAL DEFENSE

Here's Ukraine’s Secret Weapons Shocked The World: Turkish Bayraktar Drone The black-and-white footage, posted to the account of the Ukrainian armed forces, is one of several that have emerged on social media in recent days showing the devastating impact of Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian hardware.  the Ukrainian military said that Bayraktar drones had destroyed one tank and two surface-to-air missile systems overnight.  The impact of Bayraktar drones in Ukraine Ukraine’s drone campaign has contributed to its early successes in slowing the Russian advance, and is revealing unexpected weaknesses on the part of the Russian army, U.S. and European military analysts say. Source:  NATIONAL DEFENSE