ZTZ-96As and ZBD-04s rolling on the street of Rizhao, Shandong. Identification numbers suggest that these vehicles are form PLA ETC GF, 71th GA, 2nd HCAB (LD11).
The fleet seems to be in transit from the Port of Rizhao to Rizhao Railway Station:
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ZTZ-96As and ZBD-04s rolling on the street of Rizhao, Shandong. Identification numbers suggest that these vehicles are form PLA ETC GF, 71th GA, 2nd HCAB (LD11).
The fleet seems to be in transit from the Port of Rizhao to Rizhao Railway Station:
That road might will be unusable after this , that a battalion worth of gear driving though it without rubber tracks .
In my opinion who ever made the call of just to drive this short distance might made a bad call , cause unless you are in war times , you shouldn't do this.
These tanks are not light vehicles , and even tracked diggers will put down wood planks under the track to avoid permanently damaging the road.
You could see the road surface getting damaged from the tank tracks from the video.
Maybe they didn't have time, and this is a mobilisation for Pelosi visit?
Maybe , but then why an order was given this way . There isn't really a good reason to written up a exercise that need the unit to drive up though a civilian used road like this , it doesn't really provide a training that is unobtainable in other ways, and it doesn't justify destroying part of the road.
The only information that this maneuver will provide is , that yes , you can just drive up the road with metal tracks , but you didn't need this drill to confirm this.
2nd HCAB stations in Jiangsu Province. The fact that they showed up in Shandong Province indicates that they are travelling up north.
I guess not every port is as luxurious as this one
