Tachanka
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thumb|Tachankas turret used in WWI.|alt= thumb|Tachanka armed with a PM M1910 in the [[Huliaipole museum]]
A tachanka (Russian and ) is a horse-drawn cart (such as a charabanc) or an open wagon with a heavy machine gun mounted on the rear side. A tachanka requires a crew of two or three (one driver and a machine gun crew) and must be pulled by two to four horses.
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