The Porsche Tiger and Ferdinand Tank Destroyer: Vk 4501 (P) / Porsche Type 101 and the Panzerjger Ferdinand/Elefant (Frhlich Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Ferdinand Porsche was an Austrian engineer born in 1875. In the interwar period, Ferdinand founded an automotive consultation firm, which gradually grew into today's Porsche AG automotive company. Porsche's firm was responsible for the design of the Volkswagen, a simple model known today as the Beetle. During the Second World War, Porsche's firm played an important role in designing military vehicles for the Wehrmacht. This work follows up on author Michael Frhlich's book on Porsche's massive Maus tank and describes the firm's other armored-vehicle designs, with special emphasis on the VK 4501 (P) Tiger prototype and the Ferdinand tank destroyer. VK 4501 was the designation for the prototypes competing to be what would become the Panzer VI Tiger. Porsche's concept used a novel gasoline/electric hybrid power plant, but the Tiger contract eventually went to Henschel. Through details on
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