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Nope. No maintenance manual anywhere will have a chapter for “strip down engine stages & remove paint.”

Most engine blades (especially turbine section***) these days have almost microscopic cooling holes / channels - you can’t just dip blades in paint remover! The Rolls Royce Trent 700 must be in the region of £20M per engine; the main fan is about 97” in diameter.

This will be a huge amount of :pound::pound::pound: to repair.

*** did a tour of Rolls Royce engine plant that made the Tornado engines - the turbine blades operated at a hotter temperature than the melting point of the metal that they were made of!

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Does it make a differences that the engines are leased (or use to be)?

Dunno - there will still be a direct cost to the operator (insurer??) or lessor.

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It’s been there for a week so far…

Why havent we shipped out a dozen raf ref, who can stand guard 24/7 in pairs on shift… seems pretty basic to me.
If we dont trust the Indians that much of course…

Didn’t they want to buy the type anyway? Fly a few salespeople over?

Sounds like a job for the Air Security Force (RAFP, MPGS) rather than the Combat Readiness Force (RAF Regt).