Why the heck MK3 Fuselage 3 hasn't don't have oxidizer

[Pawelk198604]

I built space shuttle, my shuttle was lunched on top of the rocket but it was unable to circularize orbit because it doesn't have oxidizer

[Bioman222]

It's for airplanes, not rockets.

Though it would be nice if their was one with oxidizer.

[buzz66boy]

Yeh the fuselages have only jet fuel in them, has been this way for a while.

[gompasta]

Because that fuselage is to be used exclusively with jet engines, so jets don't need to lug around unused oxidizer.

[cesarcurado]

Because it is made to work with jet engines, I think.

KSP should allow you to add any kind of fuel to tanks from the VAB/SPH (tanks coming empty maybe?)

[Sir Nahme]

tweakables are coming, patience is a virtue

[stupid_chris]

Because it is made to work with jet engines, I think.

KSP should allow you to add any kind of fuel to tanks from the VAB/SPH (tanks coming empty maybe?)

That's what tweakables plan to do.

[llamatoes]

Tweakables. Tweakables. when are we going to get these fabled artifacts?

[rodion]

KSP should allow you to add any kind of fuel to tanks from the VAB/SPH (tanks coming empty maybe?)

This doesn't seem all that realistic to me, due to the large differences in tank design for different propellant; for example tanks that are designed to hold cryogenic rocket propellants such as LH2/LOX are engineered and shaped so that the contraction their containers experience when being cooled to very low temperatures during filling doesn't affect the functionality of the tank, which isn't a problem for propellants that aren't stored at low temperature. Also, the relative internal tank sizes for one fuel/oxidizer mix (or just fuel, for planes) will often be very different to another. Of course, all of this stuff happens "inside" the part and outside the established game variables of KSP where you can't see it and don't really think about it, but to my mind it seems a bit silly. You usually can't swap out fuels in a tank without having to re-engineer the whole thing from scratch.

[koshelenkovv]

This doesn't seem all that realistic to me, due to the large differences in tank design for different propellant; for example tanks that are designed to hold cryogenic rocket propellants such as LH2/LOX are engineered and shaped so that the contraction their containers experience when being cooled to very low temperatures during filling doesn't affect the functionality of the tank, which isn't a problem for propellants that aren't stored at low temperature. Also, the relative internal tank sizes for one fuel/oxidizer mix (or just fuel, for planes) will often be very different to another. Of course, all of this stuff happens "inside" the part and outside the established game variables of KSP where you can't see it and don't really think about it, but to my mind it seems a bit silly. You usually can't swap out fuels in a tank without having to re-engineer the whole thing from scratch.

Fuel is not LH2, it is most likely kerosene - jet engines are able to work on it.

Also, while you can not swap the content of tanks, you can swap tanks inside MK3 fuselage.

[gompasta]

People seem to be forgetting that this is a game, not a hardcore simulation. Not everything has to be realistic.

[cesarcurado]

People seem to be forgetting that this is a game, not a hardcore simulation. Not everything has to be realistic.

This.

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[Tiron]

This doesn't seem all that realistic to me, due to the large differences in tank design for different propellant; for example tanks that are designed to hold cryogenic rocket propellants such as LH2/LOX are engineered and shaped so that the contraction their containers experience when being cooled to very low temperatures during filling doesn't affect the functionality of the tank, which isn't a problem for propellants that aren't stored at low temperature. Also, the relative internal tank sizes for one fuel/oxidizer mix (or just fuel, for planes) will often be very different to another. Of course, all of this stuff happens "inside" the part and outside the established game variables of KSP where you can't see it and don't really think about it, but to my mind it seems a bit silly. You usually can't swap out fuels in a tank without having to re-engineer the whole thing from scratch.

So swap the internal tankage out?