Why not use an oxidizer on jet engines, wouldn’t it provide better efficiency/power output?

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Why not use an oxidizer on jet engines, wouldn’t it provide better efficiency/power output?

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Because carrying thousands of pounds of liquid oxygen would cause the craft to have to be significantly larger and use more fuel because of that. It would also make the thing more of a moving bomb.

The air to fuel ratio for jet engines from what I gather is around 60:1 so it would take A LOT of oxidizer.

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