Approx 90 of these Tank Destroyers were used in the Battle of Kursk. Its design originated as a new Heavy Tank by Porsche but was never adopted by Hitler. Hitler however needed a Platform for the 88mm gun and the Tiger chassis was not good enough so the Elefant was born.
Furthermore, of the 90 Elefants used at Kursk, 40 were taken out by Russian Infantry within the first 2 days because it had no machine gun fitted and no infantry support.
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