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Originally Posted by Za Rodinu
All in all a major failure like the Elefant, and in puny numbers like that it only got it's relevance among modellers because it was another piece of all that German sexy kit.
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I wouldn't call the Elefant a "failure." While the tank should never have been built, the 90 that were did prove their utility on the Eastern Front where they racked up quite a score. There is speculation that the last two or three surviving vehicles in S. PzJr Kp 614 fought during the final days of the war in Berlin.
Also, the canard that its initial lack of a mounted machinegun was a major flaw has been thoroughly discredited as has its original source; that horrible book by Martin Cadin,
The Tigers are Burning.
As a side note, a couple of Porsche Tigers with turret did actually see service on the Eastern Front too.