page_title: Tachanka
hierarchical_section_title: Tachanka
context_page_description: A tachanka was a horse-drawn machine gun, usually a cart or an open wagon with a heavy machine gun installed in the back. A tachanka could be pulled by two to four horses and required a crew of two or three. A number of sources attribute its invention to Nestor Makhno.
context_section_description: A tachanka (Russian: тача́нка, Ukrainian: тачанка, Polish: taczanka) was a horse-drawn machine gun, usually a cart (such as charabanc) or an open wagon with a heavy machine gun installed in the back. A tachanka could be pulled by two to four horses and required a crew of two or three (one driver and a machine gun crew). A number of sources attribute its invention to Nestor Makhno.
caption: Tachankas turret used in WWI.
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