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Originally Posted by CDAT
When I joined the Army, in the early 1990's we were still using DF-2 as it is the preferred fuel for the Tanks, it was not tell late 90's (99 I think) that the AF forced us to switch to JP-8. For us the biggest issue was we can no longer us the on board smoke generator as it would start on fire with the JP-8.
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they went to the JP-8 to save money by only buying one kind of fuel - and could see that happening even earlier with the war start - i.e. shipping is at a premium so conversion to one fuel standard would happen even earlier