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Originally posted by Super_Dave_D
Byron - The first picture is a Russian T-34(R). The Tiger I or II wasn’t actually built by Porsche - his designs lost out to Henschel. BUT Porsche did have some great vehicles in WWII like the Kubelwagon, Shwimmwagon (sp) and the military beetle. Most of his chassis from the Tiger programs were turned into limited production tank hunting variants (Elephant - Jagdtiger) both of which did not fair too well.
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Porsche built the "Ferdinand" tank destroyer. Like a big Tiger tank with fixed turret. There are pics on p.32-33 of Ludvigsen's original book.