Elephant. Heavy assault gun Ferdinand Porsche

This heavy assault gun is called the "best self -propelled for the Second World War". This armored "brand" is known to everyone. Although only 90 "Ferdinands" (8.8-cm Pak 43/2 SFL L/71 Panzerjager Tiger (P) Ferdinand) were manufactured-this designation in honor of his creator Ferdinand Porsche received this fighter of the tanks by personal order of Hitler), his name It became a household name-on the Soviet-German front, Ferdinandami called any German self-propelled guns with the rear location of the combat branch. Elefant Fur 8.8 cm Sturmgeschutz Porsche) after modernization in February 1944, this assault gun distinguished both on the Western and Eastern Front-the most powerful 88 mm gun and 200-mm lobe armor made it A deadly opponent, capable of hitting any allies armored vehicles at a distance of more than a kilometer and almost invulnerable to retaliatory fire.
The book of the leading domestic historian armored vehicles in all details restores the history of the creation and combat use of the legendary self -propelled gun from the Kursk arc to the Nikopol bridgehead and from the Italian campaign to the battle for Berlin, where the last two Elephants were captured by Soviet troops on May 1, 1945 The analysis of their combat effectiveness is of particular interest - by comparing the German reports about the destroyed tanks of the Red Army with the real amounts of losses, the author proves that the victorious accounts of the Ferdinandovs are very for