Israeli Defense Force: Fight for Independence is a Total Conversion modification for the PC game Battlefield 2 (A.K.A. BF2). What we aim to achieve with this mod is to immerse the player into the historic wars involving Israel, Syria, Egypt, and Jordan, which are the 6-Day War, the War of Attrition, and the Yom Kippur War. The player will be able to play as a common soldier, crewmember, or pilot in these wars. The mod will feature historically accurate equipment such as the famous Russian AK-47, the fearsome SO-4050 bomber, the menacing IS3 and M48 tanks, and much, much more. Also, the maps will recreate actual battles that happened in these wars, to complete a historically-accurate and immersive modification. IDF:FFI is also a member of the acclaimed cooperative gaming studio Black Sand Studios.
The T-62 is a Soviet main battle tank designed as a further development of the T-55 series. The T-62 features a larger 115mm smoothbore gun and thus also a larger turret and hull to accomadate the new gun. The armor and engine were also upgraded over the T-54/55. Altough an improvement over the T-55, the T-62 shares some of the T-55's limitations: a cramped crew compartment, crude gun control equipment, limited depression of the main gun and vulnerable fuel and ammunition storage areas. The T-62 was the first production tank to feature a smoothbore gun that could fire new APFSDS (armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding-sabot) shells powerful enough to defeat the frontal armor of newer western tanks. It can also fire standard armor piercing, HEAT and Frag-HE rounds.
During the Yom Kippur war, the T-62 was an effective adversary for Israeli Patton and Centurion main battle tanks armed with 105 mm tank guns. The T-62 had an advantage in its better night-fighting capability, but losses were heavy. The Egyptian army received approx. 200 Soviet built T-62's between 1971-73. After crossing into Sinai, Egyptian forces advanced virtually unopposed. Later in the war Egyptian T-62s faced Israeli armor in the largest tank battle on the Sinai front.
Illness88 really out did himself with these new Egyptian T-62 textures, they are amazing. Plus he also created many more even more intresting T-62 textures for the Syrian and Iraqi armies that we will showcase in a later update.