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More on the Abrams fuel "issue"

The military used to buy three fuels for general battlefield service:

MOGAS, which is just plain old regular unleaded gasoline

DF2, which is Number 2 Diesel. (There’s also a Number 1 diesel, which is lower in viscosity. You see it in Alaska.)

JP4, which is jet fuel. JP4 is a 50–50 mix of gasoline and kerosene with added corrosion inhibitors, water absorbers and other chemicals to make it work better in a military aircraft.

The Abrams tank’s Honeywell turbine engine will run on anything that will burn, so they ran it on DF-2.

Then the military got smart: Why bring three different fuels to the field? Especially since jet fuel and diesel are very close to one another? They phased out as much gasoline-powered equipment as they could - things like small generator sets and lanterns still use gasoline - and switched all the JP4 and DF2 users to a new fuel called JP8…which is civil Jet A1 fuel that has corrosion and moisture inhibitors in it. Now the Abrams runs on JP8. They work hard to keep the quality of JP8 high, but if you get some water or crud in it, your tank will run badly.

and...........

The turbine was designed to use ANY liquid fuel from Benzene to Bacardi (151 and up)