Re: [OT]Wither Canada? And Australias Abrahms

At 5:23 AM +0100 2/6/05, John Atkinson wrote:

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>All American miltary vehicles run off of JP-8.  It's jet fuel.  US
>Specification MIL-DTL-83133 and British Defence Standard 91-87
>Kerosense-based, mostly.

Isn't it a STANAG too?

In some ways JP-8 is like diesel, but it has 
lower lubrication properties as compared to 
diesel. You can take a JP-8 configured truck and 
run it on No 1 or No 2 Diesel. The other way 
around works too, but some parts like the fuel 
pump need to be designed differently for better 
reliability.

My M813 has a "JP-8 Only" label on the fuel tank 
but the No 2 Diesel runs it just fine. The main 
difference is as I understand it a bit more 
sulfur in the diesel.

The one fuel thing makes a lot of sense from a 
logistics standpoint. Its nice for collectors 
like me because there's lots of kit getting 
surplused because it runs on diesel only or more 
often MOGAS (aka petrol, aka gasoline).
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