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-19 (NATO reporting name: Farmer) is a Soviet second generation, single-seat, twin jet-engined fighter aircraft. It had the misfortune of falling between the legendary Mig-15/17 and the Mig-21 and is often forgotten. It was the first Soviet production aircraft capable of supersonic speeds in level flight. First intoduced in the late 1950s, approximately 5,500 MiG-19s of all versions were produced, in the USSR, Czechoslovakia and People's Republic of China as the Shenyang J-6. Mig-19s have flown in several airforces and saw combat during the Vietnam War, several Middle Eastern wars, and the Indo-Pakistan wars. Despite its age, the MiG-19 exhibit good handling characteristics at low altitude and a high rate of climb, and heavy cannon armament, making the MiG-19 a formidable adversary in close combat.
In 1962, Egyptian MiG-19s saw some action in the ground-attack role during the civil war in Yemen. MiG-19s were in service with Egypt, Syria & Iraq during the Six-Day War in 1967, but most were destroyed on the ground. Egyptian Mig-19s also fought during the Yom Kippur War in which they served as close air support aircraft. They were retired from service after the war but Egypt did purchase many Chinese J-6's to replace the Mig-19s in the 1980's. Israeli pilots, did find the MiG-19 a potentially dangerous adversary because of its performance, maneuverability, and heavy armament.
The main variant used by Arab airforces was the Mig-19S (Farmer C) which included a Svod long-range navigation receiver and three 30 mm NR-30 cannons. It also had hardpoints for rocket pods or a bombs under each wing. A few Mig-19P and PM's (Farmer E) were also used which included Izumrud radar in the nose in the place on 1 of the cannons and was able to carry the K-13 air to air missiles.