Re: T-34 and Su-76 fuels

[<AMPSOne@aol.com>]

Ed, 

The diesel was mixed with naptha from what I understand to make it easier to 
start the engines. A pure diesel engine wouldn't burn so fast in the summer 
as the Soviets dropped the naptha from the mixture then.

It's the same reason all those T-80B tanks blew up in Chechnya on New Year's 
Eve 1994-95, as the fuel (diesel -- which runs turbines reasonably well) was 
loaded with the stuff.

Cookie Sewell
AMPS