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Originally Posted by tsofian
There has been some discussion about electric drive vs turbines. If the project concentrated on fusion powered electric propulsion I think they probably would have been able to get their electric motors to a similar power to weight ration of a turbine engine. If the fusion/electric drive is weaker then the turbine drives the Project will be operating at a disadvantage. I feel that they would have been able to boost these systems to at least parity with conventional systems for them to deploy them so widely
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For clarity, are you talking about jet engines or the types of turbine engines used in modern tanks? The former is doubtful to be replaced by a fusion engine even with the hypothetical systems @kato13 mentioned, the latter is no different than replacing any other gas engine.