God, another piece of lying, hysterical bullshiite!
The so-called "melting flight deck" problem DOES NOT EXIST!!
The vertical landing & horizontal take-offs (several) from USS Wasp by an F-35B were done with normal flight deck non-skid... AND NOTHING BAD HAPPENED!
There
was a small (~10' x 20') section of the new flight deck coating on one section of Wasp's flight deck... but not the section where the F-35B landed (or took off from).
The new coating is in the last stages of the approval process... it was developed independently of the F-35B program (specifically in response to heating issues with MV-22, not F-35B, and is intended primarily to reduce recoating intervals from 1 year at the most (usually every 6-9 months on a CVN) to 10 years!
The cost over that period will be identical
or lower, so there is no "increased cost"!
And what BS is this "beg from the US" crap... If you decide to use it, you will buy it from the manufacturer in a normal purchase procedure... no begging needed.
Here is a link to the manufacturer's website... click on "non-skid" on the left side of the page for specific info on the coating.
Arc Spray Equipment - Thermal Spray Equipment - Metal Spraying Equipment | Thermion Inc.
I thought we had gone over this before... here is my post on page 25 of this thread;
http://www.pprune.org/7139699-post481.html