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All I can say is that the French army doesn't use that red wine as a fuel for the tanks: it's all for the crew

Our Bundeswehr vehikles (tanks and trucks) have "multi-fuel" engines means, they run with "everything" that may burn. We learnd our lesson of WW2

Even my 1986 Iltis runs with all kinds of gas (except Diesel)

Rt, the challenger 2 runs on a 1200 hp diesel, the warrior has a 550 hp Perkins/RR condor.
Diesel.

The diesels also run on Kerosene..
In fact.. on some bases they only use kerosene. (to help with logistics)

Kerosene is also quite (housil how do you say ähnlich in english?) "similar? " to Diesel..
I think even normal dieselengines will run on kerosine.

You mean Esso blue (or pink) paraffin?

It reminds me of when I was little living in Southend. My grandmother used to use Valor paraffin heaters in the house. I used to be allowed to fill up the tanks. The paraffin smell takes me back 4 decades.

Thanks guys, those replies answered my questions I seem to recall a movie made in the 1970s or 80s about ww2 where the Wehrmacht was trying to develop a synthetic fuel which did not require as much petroleum if any. Although the movie was fiction I seem to recall it being based on documents and plans that the allies recovered. Of course the most ridiculous "fact based" movie I've seen to date has to be "Outpost"----I just cannot quite believe that the Nazi's were experimenting with worm-holes and other dimensions.

rationtin440 wrote:Just curious housil and biscuits brown, do you know if German and British IFVs or tanks are capable of using different kinds of fuel as our American M-1 Abrams tanks can? I don't believe the Soviets ever adopted this system but I may be wrong.

Russian T-72's ,T-80's tank engines are multifuel. Most of them use the GTD-1250 Gas-Turbine engine capable of using diesel,kerosene,gasoline and any type of combustible mixture.
The T-90 engine,the V-84MS 618kW is also a multifuel diesel one.

Thanks for reply Bypah! I recall the briefings we received at my national guard unit during the cold war, and we were told that the chronic alcohol issues withing the Soviet Army were to the point that armor crews were siphoning brake fluids and even fuel and mixing it with other stuff and drinking it. I'm not sure how true it was but I could not imagine being that bored, cold, or in need of a drink in the field, and with the Soviet Union's reputation for strict and brutally enforced discipline in its military, how well it would even be tolerated. Anyone here with medical training like housil please chime in with their thoughts, because from what I know the fuels and vehicle fluids are pretty universally poisonous and cannot be made safe to drink.

rationtin440 wrote:Thanks for reply Bypah! I recall the briefings we received at my national guard unit during the cold war, and we were told that the chronic alcohol issues withing the Soviet Army were to the point that armor crews were siphoning brake fluids and even fuel and mixing it with other stuff and drinking it. I'm not sure how true it was but I could not imagine being that bored, cold, or in need of a drink in the field, and with the Soviet Union's reputation for strict and brutally enforced discipline in its military, how well it would even be tolerated. Anyone here with medical training like housil please chime in with their thoughts, because from what I know the fuels and vehicle fluids are pretty universally poisonous and cannot be made safe to drink.

"During the Cold War, the Soviet Army was constantly having to guard against its soldiers drinking the brake fluid from vehicles... " http://collateraldamage.wordpress.com/category/vodka/

Here is another link.
http://www.osaarchivum.org/files/holdin ... 5-56.shtml

For a moment I thought it was a Cold War Western propaganda or a joke ,but is the brutal truth.
although the last link is from a propaganda broadcast from RADIO FREE EUROPE /RADIO LIBERTY. Sso it WAS WESTERN CAPITALST PROPAGANDA!!!

Still the soviets and know the are heavy drinkers....well vodka is goooodddd!!!!
Dabaii!!!!

Baa..mouthwash.

The two great drinks of the world are
And the great
Is absinthe still illegal in the US btw?