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The ‘tachanka’ was formally accepted for service with the Red Army almost a decade after the civil war period, with which it is usually historically associated
A typical Soviet photograph of Red Army tachanki machine gun carriages with their four-horse teams at the gallop
pictures James Kinnear
One of the most symbolic, if not entirely practical early Sovietera military combat vehicles was the ‘tachanka’, a horsedrawn machine gun cart. With the era of diesel and petrol engines coming to an end, an article on horse-drawn machine gun carriages is perhapsnot so un-topical in a magazine dedicated to fossil fuel-powered vehicles.
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