Help animating a tank track in Blender (FBX with joined links)

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to animate a tank track in Blender, but I’m stuck. I received the track as an FBX file, and all the individual links of the track are joined together, so I can’t separate them or isolate a single link.

I just want to create a simple forward movement animation of the track. I’ve tried using separation or parenting, but nothing seems to work because the links are all part of a single mesh.

Does anyone have any suggestions or tips on how I could animate this properly? Any workflow ideas would be super helpful!

https://preview.redd.it/ut19uz3br2vf1.png?width=1390&format=png&auto=webp&s=f519579cb534d6fac746a71f800f88bb31b199ae

wireframe of a detail of the mesh

Thanks a lot!