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[quote="Pat Holscher"][quote="jan"] http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/315/p240.jpg

That mounted machine gun is called a Tachanka, and I posted a couple of links about it on the "Machine Gun Cart" thread, a few days ago -- notably, a subtitled animation of the rousing Red Army propaganda song ...

The Russians used a horse-drawn one called a tachanka; seems to me, that would really be of more interest to this society. The horses must have been pretty combat ready. There is a rousing tune, "Tachanka," that I've only known as an instrumental number; but I hit upon this Soviet era video of the ...