After the Korean War had started, the USAF (United States Air Force) was in urgent need of all-weather interceptors and surveillance airplanes. The urgency was so big that they considered two foreign designs to be incorporated into USAF service, the English Electric Canberra and the Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck. The CF-100 was rejected for not having enough range and insufficient payload. In the end, the Electric Canberra was chosen and was built under license by Martin. It was known as the Martin B-57 Canberra.
As the Canuck Mk.3 was the first of the Canucks armed with a machine gun that could've been ready in time before the cease fire agreement of 1953 and considering that it was an all-weather interceptor, we decided to paint totally in black as another all-weather fighters that served in Korea during that year.
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_CF-100_Canuck
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