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 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 (NATO reporting name: Fresco) is a high-subsonic fighter aircraft produced in the USSR from 1952 and operated by numerous air forces in many variants. It is an advanced development of the very similar appearing MiG-15 of the Korean War. The basic MiG-17 was a general-purpose day fighter, armed with three cannons, one 37mm cannon and two 23mm. It could also act as a fighter-bomber, but its payload was considered light relative to other aircraft of the time. Later variants had radar and air-to-air missiles.
The MiG-17 equipped the Arab Air Forces from the 1950s until well into the 80s. Hundreds of "17s" were purchased from various sources including the Czechs and the Russians. After 1967 the Egyptians camouflaged their aircraft with a variety of color schemes applied over their natural metal finishes. One particular scheme was called the "Nile Valley" and was basically a three color scheme of green, sand and Black-Green. The Egyptians engineered additional hard-points to carry bombs under the fuselage and wing-mounted rails equipped with SAKR rockets.
The excellent model and textures were created by Pedro. The aircraft in our next release will have many different variants. For example we will have an Mig-17 with rocket pods and another one will have bombs. We also hope to create a Syrian and Iraqi textures in addition to the Egyptian texture we show here.
What about MiG-15 ?
We have the MiG-15 in Battlefield: Korea, and we collaborate with IDF sharing content back and forth. They are free to use it in the mod.
Here is the Egyptian Mig-15 from the Battlefield:Korea mod.
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From what I can tell, many of Egypt's Mig-15s were destroyed during the 1956 war. And they began to use them less and less as they received more modern aircraft like Mig-17s, 19s and 21s.