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To: hardspunned

It will double the fuel economy to 2 miles per gallon! I don’t know what pinheads though a turbine engine in a tank would make sense.


7 posted on 03/20/2024 1:19:48 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.q)
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To: wildcard_redneck

Maybe they were Chrysler engineers in the early 69s.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J4QVMYPy5co&pp=ygUQY2hyeXNsZXIgdHVyYmluZQ%3D%3D


10 posted on 03/20/2024 1:25:14 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: wildcard_redneck

“I don’t know what pinheads though a turbine engine in a tank would make sense”

Well, I can give you one reason, because they are designed to run on anything that’s combustible.
That way if the proper fuel isn’t available on the battlefield but something else is, at least the crew can hopefully keep the thing from being stranded and or captured.

I know that because I worked in a facility that produced the main fuel controls for the M1 Abrams back in the day.

Part of the testing was to simulate fuels with different viscosity for that very reason.


28 posted on 03/20/2024 1:47:06 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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