Originally Posted by
43Inches
Western tech are slow with it because they don't want to pay for the Russian patents on it, they had offered it as a retrofit for SAAB 340 aircraft, the SAAB kit dropped the weight of deicing system by about 90%. The reason it wasn't adapted 'Russian technology is not accepted by the west'.
Innovative Dynamics Inc, a US company, filed for a patent for their electro-magnetic expulsion de-icing system over 25 years ago. The patent,
US6102333A, was granted in 2000. The systems are built in the US by Cox and Co for a variety of aircraft, not the least of which being Boeing's P-8 Poseidon anti-submarine aircraft. Apparently US Navy has no aversion to "Russian technology".