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Tough about introduction of such vehicles for some OOBs when was mentioned in Polish OOB thread about Taczanka wz.28 & wz.36 This vehicle was genuine Russian invention first build during civil war in Russia and used by both sides Reds and White. That is simple horse four wheel cart with installed machine-gun able to shoot in rear sphere and sometimes even AA-fire usually MG was possible to disassemble and using in conventional way. Generally they were created to give cavalry MG fire without complicated unpacking and placing on the position. They where able to follow cavalry with the same speed.

Tachanka's in Soviet Union

Improvised version from civil war times
Usually civilian version of cart with two horses with added Maxim HMG without any special standing point


M1928
Looks like that was some standardization in that times M1928 was even able to AA fire






How long they were use there is photo from Moscov defense and even from 1944. Polish LWP Manual after the war in 1951 mentioned about tachanka in MG-units what mean that they were as long as cavalry units in soviet and satellite states what my means somewhere until 1955?


Moscov defense


Photo from 1944 looks like civil war improvised pattern



Pictures from Polish military manual about Taczanka. Is rather certain that such schema was taken from soviet organisation of such units as we can see there was 6 solders who were involved in keep such vehicle running.




Wartime photos from Kiev defence 1941