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Description
A variant of the F-3A for the Royal Canadian Air Force, it is ordered at 2022 after the success of the joint Japan and Great Britain operation in Africa garnered reputation which led the RCAF ordered about twenty four units intended for two regiments at Vancouver and Ottawa. While it's internal designation by Taiga were F-3C-RCF, or Royal Canadian Forces, it was to be fully renamed for every unit eventually acquired and operational, dubbed as the CF-10 following the standard aircraft's designation of the Royal Canadian Armed Forces with the number 10 as taken from Shinden IIs prototype designation X from the ASF-X.

Acquisition overview

Talks by defense, budgetary and acquisition agencies of Canada and the two tenders were held two weeks after the new year celebration of 2022, as the RCAF's CF-X-NG were still ongoing since 2018, precisely following the NRF attack at the Haneda Harbor. The CF-X-NG is the tender program to outfit at least a squadron of each two fighter regiments with the possible 5th Generation fighter planes that would complementing the CF-18 fleet, which most of it were phased out with the newer Block 3 Super Hornet. At the time, although the option would be either Taiga's F-3 Shinden II or Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II, Canada were already in intensive talk with the US Government whose went ahead offering their F-35As in complete combat-operation-capability at a negotiable procurement costs, however, the overall performance of the American fighter aircraft despite it's advancements in avionics, flight capabilities and weaponries, did not exceeds that level when flying the older Hornets. Three months later, the negotiation were halted, Canadian officials did not satisfied with the "seemingly ever persistent" offering by the US government, which giving the Canadian less communication time with Japan, yet at the same time the Prime Minister were pressing the military regarding the CF-X-NG program, which before 2024 it's either concluded or cancelled altogether.

Meeting by Canadian officials were held in June, pressure were coming not only from the Prime Minister, but also the Canadian citizens, prompting military officers, the defense ministry and the logistical and technology agency to agree with the procurement of the F-35A Lightning II which were promised to receive complete COC, minimum purchase for the aircraft to receive complete COC were eighteen units which were agreed, both Canada and the US agreed the second round talk to be held in the very first of July, but it wasn't until the incident occurred in the late June.

Three CF-18 Super Hornet were mysteriously vanished south of the British territory after just departing the Heathrow Airport, the following morning, four US Navy F-35s and an E-2D Hawkeye were sent to joint air patrol with two Eurofighter Typhoons and two other F-35s of the dutch air force, further investigation revealed the CF-18s were taken out by NRFs CFA-44 Nosferatu fighters, which were also eliminating both the joint Air Forces and Navys flights, with one Typhoon survived thanks to the help of one F-3C-RN Lightning FA.1 piloted by Captain Clemens Knightly. Further SAR and salvage operations after the fight reveals the wreckage of three RCAF Super Hornets, the last transmission from the flight were that flight lead was shot down by unknown projectiles. The actual single projectile were matching one that's fired from the second Nosferatu Captain Knightly shot down, the one with dual Electromagnetic Launchers.

In the end of this, the Canadian cancelled their talks with the US Government on the F-35, the second round ever of the negotiation with the Taiga Heavy Industries were committed in early of July for total of twenty four CTOL Shinden II units, the Japanese government, aware of the CF-18 incident, offered initial twelve second-hand F-3A Shinden IIs taken from the reserve unit stationed at Fukuoka and from the TRDI Hamamatsu to be delivered to Vancouver by August of the same year with the half of the order, internally designated F-3C-RCF, to be built and delivered by mid 2027 in Japan along with the fifteen more for their own detachment at Fukuoka by early 2028 and for delivery to the Swedish Air Force in 2019, all of which with full COC and reserve maintenance parts and training to operate and maintain what would be then called 'CF-10A'. Although procurement costs were slightly bulging compared with the F-35A Plan, analysis by the Canadian defense ministry confirms the unique capability of the F-3 were drastically surpassed that of the former that in the long run would costs less to operate for possible twelve years ahead, longer-term operation costs of the F-35A turned out quite higher than the Shinden II and also not in the longest lifespan too.

CF-10A Arrow II

As stated previously, the number 10 of the CF-10A were unconditional and non-restricted implementation that for simplicity taken from the X of the ASF-X, because some of the Canadian officials were admiring historical airplanes of their past creations, it's original name, 'Shinden II' which means 'Magnificent Lightning', were put aside and instead renamed as 'Arrow II', a homage to their own CF-105 Interceptor which unfortunately did not make it into the military service. While the airplanes were built in Japan by Taiga, future agreements for the Arrow II is that production of the spare parts were to be made in-house by Canadair to reduce future operational costs instead of having to imports large quantities of parts in batches from Japan.

The overall performance of the CF-10A were same as to other F-3A models, simply what differs the Canadian CF-10 from the japanese and the british F-3s were it's weapons compatibility, particularly with the newest IRIS-T Air-to-Air and the JSM (Joint Strike Missile) Anti-Ship Missiles that was acquired early as part of the CF-X-NG program, the JSM however are too large to be fit inside the rear weaoons bays, it had to be carried conventionally on the inboard stations. The CF-10A were also armed with other weapons in the Royal Canadian Air Forces arsenal, all of which can be stored internally to maintain stealth characteristics.

Armaments
- AIM-9P Sidewinder (MSSL)
- AIM-9X-2 Sidewinder and IRIS-T (QAAM)
- AIM-120C-7 AMRAAM (4AAM)
- AGM-114 Hellfire (8AGM in JAGM-F quad-ejector-racks)
- JSM-A (Joint Strike Missile, LASM, Non-stealth)
- CBU-103 (GMDB, Guided Munition Dispenser Bomb, my new Sp. Weapon)
- GBU-32 JDAM-ER (LGB, Long-range Glide Bomb, GPB with Planar Wing Kits)

Description
A variant of the F-3A for the Royal Canadian Air Force, it is ordered at 2022 after the success of the joint Japan and Great Britain operation in Africa garnered reputation which led the RCAF ordered about twenty four units intended for two regiments at Vancouver and Ottawa. While it's internal designation by Taiga were F-3C-RCF, or Royal Canadian Forces, it was to be fully renamed for every unit eventually acquired and operational, dubbed as the CF-10 following the standard aircraft's designation of the Royal Canadian Armed Forces with the number 10 as taken from Shinden IIs prototype designation X from the ASF-X.

Acquisition overview

Talks by defense, budgetary and acquisition agencies of Canada and the two tenders were held two weeks after the new year celebration of 2022, as the RCAF's CF-X-NG were still ongoing since 2018, precisely following the NRF attack at the Haneda Harbor. The CF-X-NG is the tender program to outfit at least a squadron of each two fighter regiments with the possible 5th Generation fighter planes that would complementing the CF-18 fleet, which most of it were phased out with the newer Block 3 Super Hornet. At the time, although the option would be either Taiga's F-3 Shinden II or Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II, Canada were already in intensive talk with the US Government whose went ahead offering their F-35As in complete combat-operation-capability at a negotiable procurement costs, however, the overall performance of the American fighter aircraft despite it's advancements in avionics, flight capabilities and weaponries, did not exceeds that level when flying the older Hornets. Three months later, the negotiation were halted, Canadian officials did not satisfied with the "seemingly ever persistent" offering by the US government, which giving the Canadian less communication time with Japan, yet at the same time the Prime Minister were pressing the military regarding the CF-X-NG program, which before 2024 it's either concluded or cancelled altogether.

Meeting by Canadian officials were held in June, pressure were coming not only from the Prime Minister, but also the Canadian citizens, prompting military officers, the defense ministry and the logistical and technology agency to agree with the procurement of the F-35A Lightning II which were promised to receive complete COC, minimum purchase for the aircraft to receive complete COC were eighteen units which were agreed, both Canada and the US agreed the second round talk to be held in the very first of July, but it wasn't until the incident occurred in the late June.

Three CF-18 Super Hornet were mysteriously vanished south of the British territory after just departing the Heathrow Airport, the following morning, four US Navy F-35s and an E-2D Hawkeye were sent to joint air patrol with two Eurofighter Typhoons and two other F-35s of the dutch air force, further investigation revealed the CF-18s were taken out by NRFs CFA-44 Nosferatu fighters, which were also eliminating both the joint Air Forces and Navys flights, with one Typhoon survived thanks to the help of one F-3C-RN Lightning FA.1 piloted by Captain Clemens Knightly. Further SAR and salvage operations after the fight reveals the wreckage of three RCAF Super Hornets, the last transmission from the flight were that flight lead was shot down by unknown projectiles. The actual single projectile were matching one that's fired from the second Nosferatu Captain Knightly shot down, the one with dual Electromagnetic Launchers.

In the end of this, the Canadian cancelled their talks with the US Government on the F-35, the second round ever of the negotiation with the Taiga Heavy Industries were committed in early of July for total of twenty four CTOL Shinden II units, the Japanese government, aware of the CF-18 incident, offered initial twelve second-hand F-3A Shinden IIs taken from the reserve unit stationed at Fukuoka and from the TRDI Hamamatsu to be delivered to Vancouver by August of the same year with the half of the order, internally designated F-3C-RCF, to be built and delivered by mid 2027 in Japan along with the fifteen more for their own detachment at Fukuoka by early 2028 and for delivery to the Swedish Air Force in 2019, all of which with full COC and reserve maintenance parts and training to operate and maintain what would be then called 'CF-10A'. Although procurement costs were slightly bulging compared with the F-35A Plan, analysis by the Canadian defense ministry confirms the unique capability of the F-3 were drastically surpassed that of the former that in the long run would costs less to operate for possible twelve years ahead, longer-term operation costs of the F-35A turned out quite higher than the Shinden II and also not in the longest lifespan too.

CF-10A Arrow II

As stated previously, the number 10 of the CF-10A were unconditional and non-restricted implementation that for simplicity taken from the X of the ASF-X, because some of the Canadian officials were admiring historical airplanes of their past creations, it's original name, 'Shinden II' which means 'Magnificent Lightning', were put aside and instead renamed as 'Arrow II', a homage to their own CF-105 Interceptor which unfortunately did not make it into the military service. While the airplanes were built in Japan by Taiga, future agreements for the Arrow II is that production of the spare parts were to be made in-house by Canadair to reduce future operational costs instead of having to imports large quantities of parts in batches from Japan.

The overall performance of the CF-10A were same as to other F-3A models, simply what differs the Canadian CF-10 from the japanese and the british F-3s were it's weapons compatibility, particularly with the newest IRIS-T Air-to-Air and the JSM (Joint Strike Missile) Anti-Ship Missiles that was acquired early as part of the CF-X-NG program, the JSM however are too large to be fit inside the rear weaoons bays, it had to be carried conventionally on the inboard stations. The CF-10A were also armed with other weapons in the Royal Canadian Air Forces arsenal, all of which can be stored internally to maintain stealth characteristics.

Armaments
- AIM-9P Sidewinder (MSSL)
- AIM-9X-2 Sidewinder and IRIS-T (QAAM)
- AIM-120C-7 AMRAAM (4AAM)
- AGM-114 Hellfire (8AGM in JAGM-F quad-ejector-racks)
- JSM-A (Joint Strike Missile, LASM, Non-stealth)
- CBU-103 (GMDB, Guided Munition Dispenser Bomb, my new Sp. Weapon)
- GBU-32 JDAM-ER (LGB, Long-range Glide Bomb, GPB with Planar Wing Kits)