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This 71 caliber-long gun had originally been developed as a replacement for the well-known 88 mm anti-aircraft gun that had been used against Allied tanks in the Western Desert Campaign and on the Eastern Front. The vehicle was fitted with an 88 mm Panzerjägerkanone 43/2 gun (early designation 8,8 cm Stu.K.
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The drive sprockets are at the rear, while the front pair contain a drum brake system. There are sprockets at both ends of the vehicle. Suspension for the "slack track" equipped Ferdinand consisted of six twin bogies (three per side) with longitudinal torsion bars, without any overlapping wheels or return rollers. Porsche had experience of this form of petrol-electric transmission extending back to 1901, when he designed a car that used it.
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In addition to this high fuel consumption and poor performance, the vehicle was maintenance-intensive the sprockets needed to be changed every 500 - 900km. This "petrol-electrical" drive delivered 0.11 km/l (909 litres/100 km or 0.26 MPG) off-road and 0.15 km/l (667 litres/100 km or 0.35 MPG) on road at a maximum speed of 10 km/h off-road and 30 km/h on road. The electric motors also acted as the vehicle's steering unit.
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The engines drove a single Siemens-Schuckert 500 kVA generator each, which powered two Siemens 230 kW (312.7 PS) individual-output electric motors, one each connected to each of the rear sprockets. The two Porsche air-cooled engines in each vehicle were replaced by two 300 PS (296 hp 221 kW) Maybach HL120 TRM engines. The preserved American-captured Elefant, showing the suspension it shared with the VK 45.01 (P) chassis.
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As the engines were placed in the middle, the assistant driver and the driver were isolated from the rest of the crew and could be addressed only by intercom.Īdd-on armor of 100 mm was bolted to the front plates, increasing the plate's thickness to 200 mm and adding another 5 tonnes of weight. The driver and assistant driver were in a separate compartment at the front. The initial Ferdinand conversions were thus among the first physical examples of what became known as the dedicated Jagdpanzer tank destroyers, all of which had completely enclosed casemates, but most of which were designed with the casemate as an integral component of the vehicle's hull armor from the start the Ferdinand was more of a cross between the earlier, thinly armored, high-profile, "three-side" (open-top/rear) Panzerjäger and the later, more heavily armored, lower-profile, rear-engined Jagdpanzer.
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The now empty rear half of the hull was covered with a heavily armored, full five-sided casemate with slightly-sloped upper faces and armored solid roof, and turned into a crew compartment, mounting a single 8.8 cm Pak 43 cannon in the forward face of the casemate. The petrol–electric transmission made it much easier to relocate the engines than would be the case on a mechanical-transmission vehicle (the engines can be mounted anywhere, and only the length of the power cables needs to be altered, as opposed to re-designing the driveshafts and locating the engines for the easiest routing of powershafts to the gearbox), so without the forward-mounted turret of the Porsche Tiger prototype, the twin engines were relocated to the front, where the turret had been, leaving room ahead of them for the now-isolated driver and assistant-driver only. A similar gun was used in the lightly armored Hornisse (later known as Nashorn) tank destroyer, built at the same time. The Ferdinand was intended to supplant previous light panzerjägers, such as the Marder II and Marder III, in the offensive role. This precise long-range weapon was intended to destroy enemy tanks before they came within their own range of effective fire. It was therefore decided that the Porsche chassis were to be used as the basis of a new heavy panzerjäger, Ferdinand, mounting Krupp's newly developed 88 mm (3.5 in) Panzerjägerkanone 43/2 (PaK 43) anti-tank gun. Since the competing Henschel Tiger design was chosen for production, the Porsche chassis were no longer required for the Tiger tank project. Both the successful Henschel proposal and the Porsche design used the same Krupp-designed turret-the Henschel design had its turret more-or-less centrally located on its hull, while the Porsche design placed the turret much closer to the front of the superstructure. Porsche GmbH had manufactured about 100 chassis for their unsuccessful proposal for the Tiger tank, the " Porsche Tiger", in the Nibelungenwerk factory in Sankt Valentin, Austria. Porsche's pre- Elefant, turreted Tiger I prototype