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Fuel for tanks

  • 06-04-2010 2:05pm
    #1
    kurt largo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41 ✭


    Does anyone know what is the main fuel that is used in gas turbine engines in tanks? I hear that tanks with these engines such as the M1 Abrams can use different fuels but I just want to know if these engines usually burn kerosene, diesel, propane, etc or if they just use whatever is the cheapest or most freely-available option at the time.


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  • #2
    Captain Chaos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Captain Chaos


    kurt largo wrote: »
    Does anyone know what is the main fuel that is used in gas turbine engines in tanks? I hear that tanks with these engines such as the M1 Abrams can use different fuels but I just want to know if these engines usually burn kerosene, diesel, propane, etc or if they just use whatever is the cheapest or most freely-available option at the time.


    I have read a few times that the US army usually use kerosene for the M1 tanks, either JP4 or JP8 as it's apparantly easier on logistics.


  • #3
    kurt largo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41 ✭kurt largo


    Forgive my ignorance but why is it easier on logistics to use those fuels eg. are these fuels also used for aircraft?


  • #4
    odin_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 225 ✭✭odin_ie


    I remember it being mentioned in One Bullet Away. Bradleys work on kerosene too, the logic is that you only need to worry about one fuel type on the battlefield for all vehicles so it is logistically easier. If a helicopter lands in a remote base with fuel bladders, it can refill any vehicles there and refill itself.


  • #5
    Manic Moran
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,639 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    Everything in the US Army runs on one of two things: JP8 or MoGas (Petrol). The latter is confined to things like generators, Gators/Polaris Quadbikes, etc. I don't know if that's the case for the helicopters though.

    It does simplify logistics quite a lot. There used to be just diesel and turbine fuel, but it was too complicated so they stopped it. The only downside is that now the smoke generators on the tanks don't work, new tanks have new generators which work with the JP8.

    NTM


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