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Old 26-09-14, 18:56
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Originally Posted by tankbarrell View Post
I was interested in the 'additive' that our fuel had but nobody seemed to be able to say what it was......
One soldier told me it was "kerosine", and it did have that smell about it.

Just looked up military fuels on the NATO site (http://www.nato.int/docu/logi-en/1997/lo-15a.htm); I reckon it was F-57, a "low leaded gasoline (...) interchangeable with commercial gasoline automotive (98 RON)".

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