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The [b]Elefant[/b] (German for "elephant"), also known by its initial name as [b]Ferdinand[/b], was a Schwerer Panzerjäger (German: "heavy tank-hunter")—a tank destroyer—of the German Wehrmacht during [[World War II]].

It was built in small numbers in 1943 under the name "Ferdinand" after its designer [[Ferdinand Porsche]], using tank chassis that had been produced for the [[Tiger I]] tank requirement, but were left spare when [[Tiger (P)|Porsche's Tiger candidate]] was rejected in favour of a Henschel design.

In 1944, after modification of the existing vehicles, they were renamed Elefant. The official German designation was Panzerjäger Tiger (P) and the ordnance inventory designation was Sd. Kfz. 184.

Note that this tag encompass both the original "Ferdinand" and "Elefant" variant, which only differs in that the Elefant features a machine gun port on the left side of its frontal hull.

h4. See also

* [[List of Ground Vehicles]]
* [[Girls und Panzer]]

h4. External links

* Wikipedia: "Elefant":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elefant
* GuP website: "Panzerjager Tiger (P) 'Elefant'":http://girls-und-panzer.jp/mecha_bla_el.html
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