Nueve modernos aviones Nimrod MRA4 de vigilancia, con un coste de 3.600 millones de libras, serán desmontados y desguazados sin haber volado ni una sola vez, debido a los recortes anunciados por el gobierno de David Cameron, lo que los convierte en "el montón de chatarra mas caro del mundo".
BAE Systems ha anunciado la pérdida de miles de empleos.
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Nine brand new Nimrod surveillance aircraft, which cost taxpayers £3.6 billion, will be dismantled and scrapped without ever having flown.
The MRA4 planes, only one of which has ever left the ground, will be stripped of their equipment and abandoned following Coalition defence cuts.
The decision led to the Nimrods being branded “the world's most expensive pile of scrap metal".
Hundreds of jobs could also be lost, according to BAE Systems, which built the Nimrods.
The Strategic Defence and Security Review in October terminated the £3.6 billion order for new Nimrod MRA4 maritime patrol aircraft.
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