![]() ![]() From the puny Panzer III to the short but powerful Jagdpanzer IV and the Gargantuan Tiger II, Germany was well suited to the experiment of finding which tank design was superior. The German response to this problem was ostensibly to throw stuff on a wall and see what stuck. There was much debate between the Allied and Axis powers about what armor, weaponry, and what overall tank size would have the ultimate advantage on a potential battlefield. Tank warfare doctrine was still a developing field in the first years of the Second World War. One that we'd understand if Porsche was keen to mention as little as possible today. In terms of some of the more successful designs penned by Ferdinand Porsche, the Elefant was an epic fail. It all sounds pretty sweet on paper, but then again, having an air-cooled engine in a 911 like a Beetle for 40 years also sounded like a good idea to someone surely. It was a 143,000 pound (64,864 kg) leviathan with twin diesel engines and the main cannon that stuck out several feet past the hull. Perhaps the Elefant tank is the most bonkers of all the machines he designed. Instead, the man who fathered the Beetle spent time in the 1930s and 40s as an engineer in the German Wehrmacht. A not-insignificant portion of Porsche's experience didn't come from making sports cars. ![]()
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