The Mk.5 was the last variant of the CF-100 Canuck. It featured a longer wingspan in order to increase it's operational ceiling. They were powered either by Orenda 11 or Orenda 14 delivering similar thrust of power. It's special because it was armed only with rockets and had, therefore, the gun pack and machine-gun sights removed.
A total of 281 were built and 49 Mk.4B were upgraded to the Mk.5 standard and it was the first massively produced Canadian jet fighter.
It served with many Royal Canadian Air Force Squadrons, with four of them being deployed in Europe from 1956 to 1962 under the nimble bat program, which consisted on replacing the Canadair Sabre with some Canucks in order to provide some squadrons with an all-weather fighter against the Soviets.
When the Canuck was already outdated, some of them were retrofitted with some electronic counter-measures to serve in that role. It featured some radar jammers in the gun pack and chaff dispensers in the underwing pylons. It was followed by another communications-jamming version and remained in active role until 1981, however we couldn't find relevant graphical references of these versions, so they remain undrawn.
Sources:
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_CF-100_Canuck
2. http://www.airvectors.net/avcf100.html
3. Salamander Books - The Complete Book of FIghters
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