I'll guess the CVFs will have a similar THERMION non-skid deck coating?
Lockheed promises tailhook fix to Navy’s F-35C 10 Apr 2013 Richard Sisk
http://www.dodbuzz.com/2013/04/10/lo...o-navys-f-35c/
"...Navy officials also said that they’ll have to do refits of the big-deck L-class of helicopter assault ships to accommodate the extreme heat and noise generated by the Marine Corps’ vertical-landing version of the Joint Strike Fighter, the F-35B....
[Vice Adm. David Dunaway, head of the Naval Air Systems Command]...“I can promise you that problems will occur” in the process of acquiring 260 F-35C Navy versions of the JSF, and 353 [?] F-35B Marine versions, Dunaway said....
...In other testing, the Navy found that its L-class ships would have to be adapted to the F-35, and “ship change notices are going out now to the L-class ships,” said Rear Adm. Mark Darrah, commander of the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division. “We have to adapt the ships to the new environment” that comes with the F-35s, he said.
The Navy was adding thermite [
THERMION - 'thermite' would be interesting!] coating to the flight decks to guard against the heat blast from the vertical-lift engines of the F-35Bs, Darrah said. Additional baffling will be added to the substructure to lower the decibel level below decks, he said...."
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Thermite is a
pyrotechnic composition of
metal powder fuel and
metal oxide. When ignited by heat, thermite undergoes an
exothermic oxidation-reduction reaction. Most varieties are not explosive but can create brief bursts of high temperature in a small area. Its form of action is similar to that of other fuel-oxidizer mixtures, such as
black powder."
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