LO,
Good points - the V-22 nose gear wasn't an instant success - but landing gear design is, as I learned on the F-35 programme, one of those pesky niche areas where even good people can get caught out. (Nimrod MRA4 had some monster issues with its main gears). In any case, where shipboard ops are concerned, flight decks are, thankfully, usually pretty smooth. I'd hazard a guess that the V-22 landing gear design (small wheels) was driven by weight considerations, like Puma and Merlin.
Repeated STOs at high weights might help for 'VERTREP' type scenarios, where they need to move lots of stuff quickly between two decks. It might also help in extreme high temps. At the end of the day, the USMC/USN will have a need for it, or they wouldn't be investigating it.
Best Regards as ever
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