Anti-skid coatings for domestic aircraft carriers still adopt US military standards, and China still needs to continue its efforts

The aircraft carrier is the master of the global sea, and the carrier aircraft is its powerful spear.
To make full use of the combat capabilities of carrier-based aircraft, a safe and reliable flight deck is essential.

Because the operating environment is completely different from that of land airports, the flight deck must not only withstand the high-speed impact load of a 30-ton aircraft, but also have excellent rust resistance, abrasion resistance, slip resistance, chemical resistance and flame retardancy, etc.
Aspect characteristics.
In ensuring these properties, the non-slip coating system of the flight deck plays a very important role.

However, in the development of the Chinese Navy, there has been no carrier-based helicopter for a long time.
Owning an aircraft carrier is also a recent thing.
Therefore, there is little demand for anti-skid coatings for the deck of carrier-based aircraft, and systematic professional research is also very important.
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 With the realization of carrier-based helicopters on ships, my country has gradually begun to pay attention to this field, but the effect has been unsatisfactory.
For example, my country's early anti-skid and wear-resistant materials generally used yellow sand and cement.
This material has many disadvantages, including short service life, poor wear resistance, easy freezing and cracking in severe cold weather, and poor resistance to thermal expansion and contraction of steel plates.
Later, domestic manufacturers began to improve non-slip coatings, using polyurethane and other materials to add wear-resistant silicon carbide and emery, but the application was very limited and the effect was not ideal.

Since the 1980s, most of the anti-skid coatings on shipboard helicopter decks in my country are made of epoxy resin adhesive anti-skid pellet system, which cannot withstand the ocean climate of the sun and rain.
It is easy to chip and fall off, and has poor impact resistance.
, The friction coefficient is small and cannot meet the requirements of use.

By the 1990s, my country had successfully developed HF-05 anti-skid coatings for helicopter decks and realized serialization.
After seven or eight years of wind and rain, it is still intact.
The early anti-skid coatings for decks in my country were of poor quality, poor wear resistance, and short life span, and could not meet demand.
After China started the aircraft carrier project, the development and production of high-performance domestic anti-skid coatings has become a very urgent issue.

Regarding this issue, the former Naval Armament Department and the China Ship Research and Design Center jointly published in the "China Ship Research" magazine in April 2013, "The current situation and development trend of ship deck anti-skid coating technology", "In recent years, , Domestic units have been carrying out preliminary research on anti-skid coatings for the deck of carrier-based aircraft.
Due to foreign technical blockades, at present, they can only conduct exploration and research based on the domestic coating technology level and in conjunction with the relevant index requirements of the US military standard.
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In the August 2017 report of "Go Forward, China Aircraft Carrier", the use of domestically made anti-skid coatings on aircraft carriers in my country has been confirmed, so we can be sure that we have made breakthroughs in this field.

According to the paper jointly published by the two major organizations, we can confirm that the anti-skid coatings for aircraft carrier flight decks also refer to the US military standard, because the anti-skid coatings for shipboard helicopter decks have matured in the 1990s and there are no problems that have been tackled in recent years.
In the August 2017 "Go Forward, China Aircraft Carrier" report, the use of domestically made anti-skid coatings on aircraft carriers in my country has been confirmed.

Because the United States has a very rich accumulation in the field of anti-skid coatings on aircraft carrier flight decks, many aircraft carrier countries also use these military standards as a reference, including my country.

As early as the 1950s, the United States formulated the MIL-D-23000A military standard for anti-skid coatings for sailing flight decks, which has been updated many times with changes in tonnage, deck layout, and replacement of carrier-based aircraft.
These military standards have not only brought a lot of convenience to the development of anti-skid coatings for other aircraft carrier countries, but also left many risks for these countries.

Although the US military standards can provide a certain reference, on the other hand, why the US Navy adopts these standards in terms of slip resistance, abrasion resistance, impact resistance and media resistance, we may not know.
The US Navy’s aircraft carriers are all 100,000-ton nuclear-powered aircraft carriers.
What are the differences in the details of their anti-skid coatings compared to smaller aircraft carriers.
Without long-term research, there is no way to figure it out.
The US military standard can provide a certain reference, which has brought a lot of convenience to other aircraft carrier countries.

Drawing lessons from foreign advanced technology and standards can enable us to enter the fast lane in the field of anti-skid coating on aircraft carrier flight decks.
In the 21st century, domestic and foreign deck coating material technology has entered a period of rapid development.
We should seize the opportunity to develop a world-class anti-skid coating for flight decks and establish a set of effective and reliable standards of our own.

In fact, it is not only in the coating field, but in many other aspects, there are still many areas where our aircraft carrier supporting system needs to continue to work hard.

Source: Space Mother on the Cloud