Ok, it is well known that the M1 is not well regarded when it comes to fuel consumption. Now of course it's damned heavy, and that certainly won't help, but it does use a turbine engine, and I've always been under the impression that such would help efficiency (not like they use piston engines for power generation on large scales).
Is there some issue with turbine engines not scaling down well? Is there some other factor which makes these engines so inefficient? |