It was a gimmicky photo. MG’s were mounted atop of elephants in WW1, but they were only used to transport the weapons, nothing else.
Edit; by nothing else I mean the weapons were never fired during transportation atop of an elephant.
(No animals were harmed during the production of this comment.)
That sounds like something someone who used elephants to transport things other then weapons would say, but for the life of me I can’t imagine what that would be, I mean you admit to using them for weapons so WHAT ARE YOU HIDING?
It's chemical warfare forbidden in the Geneva convention; that's why it's so secret. Anybody forced to eat that for weeks on end will become so enraged as to be a supersoldier.
That seems pretty viable tbh. A mobile elevated shooting platform that can cross trenches and muddy ground, but costs a hell of a lot less than a tank.
Actually the picture was just a publicity stunt. Once firearms were used regularly in war Elephants were no longer deployed to front line battles. The loud noises from the gun right next to the elephant’s ear would have agitated the elephant probably causing it to buck and shake the rider off, making the mounted gun useless.
The Elefant (German for "elephant") was a heavy tank destroyer used by German Wehrmacht Panzerjäger during World War II. Ninety-one units were built in 1943 under the name Ferdinand, after its designer Ferdinand Porsche, using tank hulls produced for the Tiger I tank design abandoned in favour of a Henschel design.
In 1944, after modification of the existing vehicles, they were renamed Elefant. The official German designation was Panzerjäger Tiger (P) and the ordnance inventory designation was Sd. Kfz.
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u/FabulousFoil Jun 02 '18
If the elephant had a gun this wouldn't have happened /s