The Ferdinand/Elefant | Genius Tank Recycling or Waste of Resources?

[@paulklotenkotter6965]

"What exactly do you want the New Tank to be?" "Steel block going Boom"

[@zayne8353]

believe or not the unriliable tank has the hightest kill ratio in tank history

[@mitchellvliem6200]

​@@zayne8353 true. It might have been slow as hell, but they just let the russians enter the open fields and played whack-a-mole. They outranged the russians by far, so the could just sit there, shelling the russian tanks while not have much too worry about

[@haterhated5655]

The bounce on the T-34 with rhe 88mm lmao

[@гига-нигга]

I have had T-34s bounce 128s

[@General_Rat210]

"Yes a hit"

[@Dayzplayer-um9pn]

They do that​@@гига-нигга

[@Jilted84]

Ive non-penned a swedish heat FS with 400MM of pen on a T-34 front plate

[@retwro]

i dont know how it happens to others but i never get that lucky and everything goes through me

[@sovietbanana4589]

Behold the Ferdinand, the machine that put every German mechanic within a 10 mile radius on suicide watch

[@NguyenLyubyuStrana]

>shoots 88mm into T-34 > “hit”

[@jeremybeaverson7167]

Ive done the same vs a m24 with a 120mm apfds how idk 🤷‍♂️

[@1thecubingguy1]

@@jeremybeaverson7167no armour best armour

[@itsoxide3812]

The Ferdinand was insane for a tank with so many problems. With a K/D of 10 to 1, this unleashed hell onto the battlefield, until the suspension literally shat itself. Very cool tanks

[@humanhuman5024]

Honestly a KD of only 10/1 is really really low for something like this. Reports of this tank were actually horrendous. The Russians reportedly were laughing as they watched a battalion of these trying to get up a hill catching on fire due to the stress on the engine. Wasn’t as good during the testing on the normal Tiger P since it also caught on fire during testing.

[@TyTy-gm8yb]

If they were so bad, the Germans wouldn't reach the point where they almost conquered the whole planet.

[@humanhuman5024]

@@TyTy-gm8yb 1. They didn’t almost capture the whole planet they didn’t even get 50% of the way there at their peak. The Italians failed to really do anything in Africa and the Japanese only really captured islands and about 1/4th of China. They also conquered Korea. That means they still had half of Russia, all of the Americans (the content) almost all of Africa, Britain, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, India, and probably a bunch more others im missing. Not to mention almost all of the captured that the axis forces did in ww2 were against much weaker and smaller militaries. The entirety of lower Europe didn’t really even have a military so they surrendered and in Africa the only 2 countries they could really take were Tunisia which is normal and Libya which was so under developed they were using sticks to defend themselves against tanks. Only real impressive occupations that accorded was the small Japanese army that was able to fight China and Korea. The German occupation of France (even though they too were also still using mainly ww1 weapons to fight) and most of Russia as that was the bloodiest sector of the war. 2. You cannot attribute the success of a countries military to 1 thing. While yes the tigers themselves were quite good (Tiger 1 and 2) the porches variant of the tigers were horrendous. In fact during testing both Henschel (maker of the Tiger 1 and 2 we know today) and Porsche were supposed to make 1 version of the Tiger. Yet Porsche was so overconfident he made 80 thinking his would pass the test. During testing Porsches Tiger actually broke down and caught on fire. Which is why Hitler went ahead to make Herschel’s variant. However since Porsche had these 80 hulls of his tank laying around they decided to make them into something. With 1 being made into a commander Tiger which had a 200mm front plate with the same turret as the Tiger 1. And the rest being converted into Ferdinand’s and later on elephants. In actuality the Ferdinand was not a good tank and often broke down and caught on fire even in slight uphill gradients. They were also known to not be able to climb around 30 degrees of elevation.

[@comrade_alexandar4758]

I told mama we'd see elephants, tigers, panthers... She thought we were visiting Moscow zoo.

[@TaitLawrence-xl2xb]

CoH2 voiceline, nice

[@FMKeb]

The Ferdinand is German Archer in theory

[@SdKfz-gq8bh]

i hate how correct that is

[@blu5021]

Kinda true kinda not. The archer literally drives backwards

[@SdKfz-gq8bh]

@@blu5021 doesnt the Ferdinand do too? since the engine is at the front when it was in the back for the Tiger but because of its transmission it doesnt matter?

[@blu5021]

@@SdKfz-gq8bh they moved the “transmission” forward

[@FMKeb]

@@blu5021 the transmission is still in the place where it was for the valentine

[@notribadsvault]

They also broke down a bunch because the engine wasn’t meant to handle that much weight. They eventually made some modifications to improve it (which ironically added more weight) but that is entirely too much trouble for 100 tanks. It’s kinda a microcosm of the efficiencies that plagued the German war industry.

[@aliksm6166]

Most of them broke down when trying to drive up a mild slope in kursk

[@Shield_WolfWARTHUNDER]

*Hanz in his almost new Porsche*

[@XLII_42]

Favorite Tank 💪

[@nevergonnagiveyouup5713]

Bad in war thunder worse irl Atleast in war thunder its howitzer proof ill give it that

[@freedeoxide]

So what did They do *Double it and give it to The next person*

[@Mangerino]

"This is the Ferdinand" Ferdinand drifting in his sonderkraftfahrzeug:

[@nuclearstupidity6594]

i knew it! it was coh2 music playing in the background at the beginning! 🔥🔥🔥

[@nichevo1]

One of my old coffee table World War II armor books mentioned specifically that the Elefant was easy to creep up on and destroy with placed charges. Poor visibility.

[@SkunkdMonk]

same could be said about all German tanks. Only the Commander had much visibility. the Gunner only had the sight, which were really good, but bad for situational awareness. the driver could see only forward. and the loaders generally could see the inside of the tank. So really you had just the commander scanning for enemies.

[@brute6896]

lol its still funny how a couple ferdinands were ordered to get on a hill to get into position and they got knocked out by the slight incline

[@DreadMaps.]

There was 60 tiger p hulls -_- all 3 tanks know for their engine randomly combusting into flames

[@tangohotel2599]

If anyone wants to know why there were 100 Tiger P hulls around. Porsche was a pretentious prick and thought his friendship with Hitler guaranteed him the win in the design, so he ordered 100 hulls to jump start production

[@I_want_White_Cheddar_Popcorn]

Fun fact, the Jagdpanzer 38(t) was made LATER than both the Ferdinand and the Jagdtiger

[@Kalashnikov413]

The Ferdinand was also the FIRST ''Jagdpanzer'' model

[@normalyoutuber8234]

"I mean atleast it has amazing reverse which is the max speed of the the TD"

[@AlbanianEmir]

This comment exist just to raise the commentcounter to 100

[@AlbanianEmir]

This comment exist just to raise the commentcounter to 99

[@International_Corn]

Porsche try not to win against Henschel on tank designs

[@exoticdachoo007]

Man, it'd be really cool if they, instead of making a heavy tank again, made a medium tank on the Porsche hull by simply stripping the armor. This would make it the VK tank, it would've been more reliable than these fat tanks and probably even the Panther

[@Isaacthegamer123]

But still struggles to get up hill and set on fire

[@Velik-us8lf]

Know this coh2 music) good

[@nuclearstupidity6594]

"Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm stuck on the Eastern Front, AND SO ARE FUCKING YOU!"

[@nuclearstupidity6594]

"You can count on osttruppen. No, really, you can!”

[@Velik-us8lf]

@@nuclearstupidity6594 Comrade Stalin is counting on us!

[@ponypowertrucking]

They were planned to have 105mm and 128mm guns, the ones with 88mm were rushed into service

[@Kalashnikov413]

any source or authentic blueprint?

[@SadCoresad]

Aahhg de Ferdinand my favorite tank even tho i have a leopard pl

[@Nedvesperec]

Only 90 of them were built, because 10 Porsche tigers were built

[@Kalashnikov413]

actually all 90 Ferdinand were conversion from the 90 Porsche's Tiger tank

[@Nedvesperec]

@@Kalashnikov413 I know Ferdinands are the technically the "Porsche tigers" but Ferdinand Porsche made 100 hulls and a few turrets. 10 Tiger 1 (P) were built and they used them as command vehicles

[@jusbe2022]

Hey man do you play coh2?

[@holy_moleys]

This is the Fortnite

[@katarzynaborkowska-macieju68]

Please part 2

[@dzhontrofey6048]

Someone: Mhh.. wie got too much half panzers... HANS PUT A MAUS CANNON ON THAT THING!

[@taggartmumford8737]

Fun fact in some earlier trials the Henschel tiger was found to be less reliable then the Porsche tiger

[@Auras.22]

0:10 *Gets Vietnam flashback of her man kissing another woman* 0:12 *instantly turns red* Is there something i'm missing here?🤨

[@Bloodknight7567]

They didn’t chance the armour btw, check the Porsche tiger ingame the armour is the same

[@ExoKiller4]

few things german tank designers love more than putting double the weight a suspension was built to support on it

[@Orolandes]

Broke down often. Very vulnerable to infantry.

[@jusbe2022]

Becose your profile pic and the music is in coh2 ;)

[@Dukes0330]

Anyone going to mention the ‘HIT’

[@crazycarnut1313]

Personally I don’t see the Ferdinand’s/Elephants as a waste of resources. Germany needed tank destroyers and had a bunch of extra tank hulls that were no longer in production lying around. It’s not like the Jagdpanther or Jagdtiger where building the tank destroyer interrupted production of the actual tank.

[@Izyaslavdabes]

I honestly think the Ferdinand was a waste of time money and resources. Instead of using those tiger p hulls to create a pretty impractical design. They could of used Instead melted all those hulls down and made a couple hundred stug 3 tank destroyers or jagdpanzer 4's. These tank destroyers were far more reliable, easier and cheaper to make, easier to repair and maintain, and arguably more effective than the Ferdinand.

[@crazycarnut1313]

@@Izyaslavdabes the Ferdinand was actually much more effective than any other tank destroyers the Germans had with it being the vehicle with the highest K/D ratio of any German vehicle. And you also have to remember that melting down all of those hulls takes a lot more time than mounting stuff onto them and time is something Germany didn’t have an abundance of.

[@kumarikajalkiran5025]

​@@Izyaslavdabesand those cheap tanks will be made in huge numbers 4 would cost 2x more fuel than a ferdinand and getting 5x less kills because even a standard t-34 85 could pen them and destroy them

[@kumarikajalkiran5025]

Even if ferdinand would break it would get 10+kills and a standard soviet tank would break alot more than a ferdinand

[@Izyaslavdabes]

@@crazycarnut1313 That's debatable. Especially if you consider that those other tank destroyers were far more reliable than the Ferdinand. The Ferdinand while have a good K/D ratio, it was extremely unreliable especially the engine wich would catch on fire due to a number of problems. On top of that less than a hundred Ferdinands were produced and nearly all of them were destroyed or knocked out. 75% of Ferdinands were lost to mechanical reliability issues.

[@GeneralVader112sus-fn6vj]

The elephant is a separate tank

[@GeneralVader112sus-fn6vj]

The Ferdinand was given to the Italians and then modified into the elephant

[@Kalashnikov413]

No, both are the exact same vehicle. The Ferdinand's name was changed to Elefant around 1944 under Hitler's order And i don't think the Italians ever received the Elefant

[@qharvy]

HAAANZ ENGINE KAPUUUT

[@Voly-5327]

Give me part 2

[@Likebelwraker]

Germany is just art in the tank industry

[@AidenBradbury]

The p does not stand for Porsche. It stands for prototype.

[@Kalashnikov413]

Umm no. The prototype was called VK 45.01 and there were two version of it, the Porsche (P) and the Henschel (H)

[@m.y.a.111]

Nice porsche man

[@vccr123]

👾

[@JhonaVillas-hq8su]

I thought that first one is a puma tank

[@YueNakano]

What's the difference between the Ferdinand and the elephant tank? "Same same but different XDDD"

[@Better_RacistCrayfish]

Erm what the sigma

[@beaclaster]

don't turn on subtitles

[@thorgunderson-theswede86]

It was never build

[@Kalashnikov413]

It was actually built

[@thorgunderson-theswede86]

@Kalashnikov413 only an unfinished prototype was found.(I think)

[@Kalashnikov413]

@@thorgunderson-theswede86 tf you mean? Around 90-100 Tiger (P)'s hull were built and almost all of them were converted into Ferdinand

[@kurtberliner7049]

Don't hype up this trash. So many of them at kurks broke down trying to go up a few hills.

[@leon_yeet]

Still a good tank destroyer🤷🏻‍♂️

[@paulklotenkotter6965]

@@kurtberliner7049 Still better than 100 hulls just lying around.

[@LesbianCroissant]

WW2 Germany somehow making the slowest most useless tanks possble and deploying them into combat and people are suprised they lost...

[@bollocks-33]

No one noticed how the shell bounced on the t-34v