New Shogunate : Tengu Zero (hover mode) image - Red Alert 20XX mod for C&C: Yuri's Revenge

During the Second World War (the events of Red Alert 1), Japan's fighter plane were no match against the more technologically advanced fighter jets of the Soviet Union. A successor to the Ki-84 Hayate was therefore designed and quickly mass produced. The initiative gave birth to an unfortunate project : the Tenshi fighter jet. The aircraft was faster, could fly longer distances and had a more versatile armament than the Russian Migs at the time. However, internal turmoil within the Soviet Union, following the conquest of Europe, halted the Russian campaign around the sea of Japan soon after it entered service. Without an enemy to confront, this meant that the Tenshi almost never saw combat (except during the Korean War), and the tens of thousands units produced were doomed to slowly rot in japanese military hangar.

The modernization of military equipement in the early 1990's forced the Ministry of the Imperial Army to decommission the Tenshi and scrap them for parts. Even if the program was seen as too little too late, the Tenshi was considered a remarkable aircraft. So much so that, when the decommission was announced, the newly founded Imperial Engineering Corps of Robotics asked that all Tenshi units be used for R&D purposes. At first, the hull and the engine of the plane were re-purposed on heavy maintenance units, such as industrial lifters. But when a third war with the Soviet started to look possible in the late 2010's, the Tenshi parts found their way in a new hover recon unit developped by the Engineering Corps of Robotics : the Tengu Hover RV. After a few years in services, the Tengu, sporting up to 45% of the parts of the original Tenshi, was upgraded into the Tengu Zero.

Half recon unit, half jet fighter, the Tengu Zero can shift from its hover mode to become airborne, making it the ultimate recon unit.