I'm still trying to get my head round something.
Is it the current belief that the F-35B does or doesn't cause scadding and spalling to conventional runway surfaces?
Because if it does cause that, then we won't be able to deploy them overseas, other than on the ships, or a surface prepared in advance.
Makes a nonsense of "rapid deployment"
If it's a runway, the f-35b will do a normal runway landing..if it is an austere base that needs to land on a pad made with the standard AM2, or may do a slow rolling landing, because it will have to be about 700-1000ft long, so the f-35b can take off
For LHA, the V-22 is a bigger problem than the f-35b, either way there will be a long life durable surface used
there will also be long life durable pads for training vertical landings on home bases.