Additional reading:
BBC Reporters, CBS News, and New York Times reporter who were actually in the city the day it happened who report mainstream news got it all wrong. BBC Source | CBS Source | NYTimes Source
Readings into what happened with the protests:
https://redsails.org/another-view-of-tiananmen
https://www.liberationnews.org/tiananmen-the-massacre-that-wasnt-2/
I just always wondered why the other 3 tanks didn’t break formation to get around. It was already an embarrassing situation anyway.
They are trained to never do this. It could be very dangerous in a war to do this. They listen to the radio and they do what commander say.
That just begs the question again.
I just always wondered why the commander didn’t give the other 3 tanks the order to break formation to get around.
Not worth it to do. You will have to get them back in line after. That will take longer than waiting. 59式 not very fast to steer like newer tank.