Shadowfox

Specifications
Production Code	X-9
Speed	Flight: 780 kph

The Shadowfox is the newest stealth aircraft fielded by the armies of the North. What makes it remarkable is that all the member-leagues of the CNCS have contributed in some way to the program, and the plane is to be assigned to the Northern Guard.

The Shadowfox has been designed to fullfill anumber of different missions, all of them involving either stealth or secrety. Most, if not all, of thesemissions will be directed against the leagues of the Allied Southern Republic. From deep recon tosurgical strikes, there is nothing the Shadowfox cannot do, or so claim its designers.

Extra large fuel tanks and high efficiency engines give the aircraft an extremely long deployment range, allowing it to take off from advanced CNCS bases in the Badlands, fly to the southern border and return. The aircraft’s landing gear is rugged enough not to require specially prepared airstrips, a boon to many advanced base commanders.

The Shadowfox has no built-in armament. The payload pallet, be it weapons, a camera pod or a sophisticated electronic jammer, is carried within a spacious (if thin) bay placed in the center of the fuselage. The bay is completely enclosed to avoid radar echoes caused by the payload and is only opened when ready to fire. Space precludes the description of all currently available mission pallets, but nearly ten different weapon and equipment combinations have been tested up to now, with more coming.