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Elefant (German for "elephant") was a heavy tank destroyer (self propelled anti-tank gun) used by German Panzerjäger (anti-tank units) during World War II. Ninety-one units were built in 1943 under the name Ferdinand (after its designer Ferdinand Porsche) using VK 45.01 (P) tank hulls which had been produced for the Tiger I tank before the competing Henschel design had been selected.
Versions of this gun were mounted in a number of German armored vehicles under different designations, including the Tiger II heavy tank (KwK 43 L/71) and several tank destroyers: the Hornisse/Nashorn (Pak 43/1), Ferdinand/Elefant (Pak 43/2, early name Stu.K. 43/1), and Jagdpanther (Pak 43/3 and Pak 43/4, early name Stu.K. 43).
The first of these Jagdpanzers was the 70-ton Ferdinand (later renamed Elefant), based on the chassis, hulls, and drive systems of ninety-one Porsche VK4501 (P) heavy tanks, [a] mounting a long-barreled 88 mm cannon in an added casemate, more like the earlier Panzerjägers had with their added-on armour shielding for the gun crew, but in the ...
Sd.Kfz. 184 - Ferdinand/Elefant "Panzerjäger Tiger (P)" tank destroyer; Sd.Kfz. 185 - Jagdtiger tank destroyer with 88 mm L/71 main gun due to lack of supply of 128mm gun; Sd.Kfz. 186 - Jagdtiger tank destroyer with 12.8 cm Pak 44 main gun
Elefant/Ferdinand, officially 'Panzerjäger Tiger (P)' March 1943 Nazi Germany: 91 Mareșal tank destroyer: July 1943 Kingdom of Romania: 6–17 Jagdpanther: January 1944 Nazi Germany: 415 Jagdpanzer IV: December 1943 Nazi Germany: 2,000 Jagdtiger: February 1944 Nazi Germany: 70–88 Jagdpanzer 38(t) [a] [4] March 1944 Nazi Germany
At 6.24 m (20.5 ft), the length of the KwK 43's barrel was over 1.3 metres longer than of that of the 8.8 cm KwK 36 used for the Tiger I.The cartridge of the KwK 43's shell was also considerably longer (at 82.2 centimetres (32.4 in)) and wider than that of the KwK 36's, meaning that the KwK 43 allows for more room for a heavier propellant charge in its cartridge case than the KwK 36 could.
Ferdinand the Bull, a mild-mannered bull in the children's book The Story of Ferdinand; Ferdinand the Bull, mascot of the Taranaki Rugby Football Union team; Ferdinand, a character from the television series Thomas & Friends; Dr. Ferdinand, a character from the manga Steel Ball Run; Ferdinand, a character from the action-adventure game L.A. Noire
Nashorn (German: [ˈnaːsˌhɔɐ̯n], German for "rhinoceros"), initially known as Hornisse (German "hornet"), was a German Panzerjäger ("tank hunter") of World War II.It was developed as an interim solution in 1942 by equipping a light turretless chassis based on the Panzer III and Panzer IV tanks with the 8.8 cm Pak 43 anti-tank gun.