An interesting view 'cokecan' but I have no sympathy nor will the USMC for your F-35C potential problems. Youse can always revert to the F-35B and use EMALS & AAG on your new CVF flat decks to launch / recover UAVs or EW aircraft. All that remains to be seen. If you read the LM's Burbage blurb you will note that the hook is going to be tested soon. Even if there were no current F-35C hook problems there will be no actual carrier testing until 2013 in any event.
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2012/01/dn-design-blamed-for-f35c-tailhook-issues-011712/
"...Tests with the newly modified tailhook should start at Lakehurst, N.J, in the second quarter of this year [2012], Burbage said.
That will give the F-35 program another set of data to study to make sure the new design works as promised. However, until those tests are done, there is no ironclad guarantee that the redesign of the tailhook will work, but Burbage said he is confident of that the modified design will be successful.
"The big test for this airplane is not until the summer of ’13 when we take the Navy jet out to the big deck carrier and do actual traps at sea," Burbage said...."