Talk:Marston Mat

Name

I wonder what it was named after? --PeterMarkSmith 07:06, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Where did the spelling MARSDEN come from? I've always seen it referenced as MARSTON. Wl7aml (talk) 07:54, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

I don't have the answer. Perhaps the town of Marston, North Carolina is pronounced with a soft 't' to make it sound like Marsden. Binksternet (talk) 14:30, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Merge

would seem to be logical to me to merge the topics. just picked up a piece from a creekbed in far NW of South Australia..has been used as sand mats for 4WD vehicles to un bog-themselves...Alex Hope 6/3/07203.173.55.46 03:44, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008

Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 16:24, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Replaced By…

I know these were replaced by some sort of polymer matting (the US Army was bragging about how easy they were to set up in some documentary about attack helicopters in Afghanistan, IIRC). Does anyone know anything about this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.209.39.113 (talk) 09:12, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

• Pierced steel planking was largely replaced by a lighter-weight aluminum clone, but the engine heat of the new F-35B STOVL aircraft is too damned much for the aluminum stuff.[1] Steel planking should be making its comeback very shortly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.251.135.52 (talk) 07:01, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

To begin, PSP has never been replaced, last I checked...which is a while ago, granted. It's been supplemented, its primary function, general airfield paving, was already overtaken before WWII was over, but in the '80s and 90s it was still used for lighter surfacing, for protective structures, for vehicle hardstands, for pedestrian bridges, for light overhead cover, for...well, you get the idea. I saw a lot of it in Mr. Reagan's Army, and I was still taught how to use it, and its un-pierced descendants.

Fabric mats were mostly designed for dust and moisture control, not to spread the weight of vehicles. Sprayed surface treatments were often a simpler option for permanent sites where engine FOD ingestion wasn't an issue.

Something the article misses - later variants often weren't pierced, because the weight and drainage advantages of PSP were sometimes dwarfed by mowing requirements. Stuff grew through the holes, sometimes enough to interfere with operations. Anmccaff (talk) 05:18, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

Nice piece on re-use in Italy

[Repurposed matting]

Yes, that should be added. Thanks for finding it. Andy Dingley (talk) 09:49, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

Confusing Date

The first (experimental) use of PSP was in 1942/1942 for constructing a 5,000 foot runway

This sentence is clearly wrong but which date is it? Louisfuture (talk) 14:10, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

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