Folks tend to focus on the successes of Ferdinand Porsche that manifested after his death in 1951. We're talking the 911, the Boxster, and even the electric Taycan, and rightfully so. But don't get it ...
July 1943 — the Eastern Front erupts as Hitler’s “Wonder Weapon” enters the battlefield. Meet the Ferdinand: 200mm of impenetrable armor, a devastating 88mm gun, and the promise of unstoppable power.
The Ferdinand tank destroyer was born from the failure of Ferdinand Porsche's Tiger tank program, but it quickly became one of Germany's most heavily armored fighting vehicles of World War II.