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Most heavy US military vehicles like the Abrams can run on gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.
by keewee7 4y ago
Most heavy US military vehicles like the Abrams can run on gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.
- somat 4y agoIn fact it is all us military that use diesel fuel. Note that jet fuel is high grade diesel fuel and jet-a is the specific formulation that the us military runs on. They go out of their way to make everything diesel. two notable examples: there is a motorcycle reconisence squad and the us army had custom Kawasaki klr made with diesel engines for them. the lycoming company had a great deal of trouble making a small diesel engine for a little army drone. The lycoming el-005 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW2T2lvQXBM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW2T2lvQXBM The reason is logistics, the army only wants to ship one type of fuel, and go out of their way to make that happen.
- itsyaboi 4y agoJet-A is the commercial diesel variant. Military uses JP8 which is Jet-A + anti-corrosion/static additives.