Thank you again, Mr Boffin, for the excellent background.
As for STOVL impacts, no less a person than a Lockspeed hoaxman, I mean Lockheed spokesman, declared in 3/10 that "the difference between F-35B main-engine exhaust temperature and that of the AV-8B is very small, and is not anticipated to require any significant CONOPS changes for F-35B."
And it was none other than the Commandant of the Marine Corps who said in the same month that the JSF exhaust "at 1,500 degrees, is just 18 degrees hotter than a Harrier."
One just hopes that those statements will not be shortly shown to have been, er, misinformed.
