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keewee7 | 3 years ago

Most heavy US military vehicles like the Abrams can run on gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.

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somat|3 years ago

In 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

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|3 years ago

Jet-A is the commercial diesel variant. Military uses JP8 which is Jet-A + anti-corrosion/static additives.