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    The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is taking £4.1bn worth of new spy planes and smashing them to pieces. Why?

    Three of the planes are 90% finished. One is complete and ready to take off.

    But these Nimrods will never patrol for submarines. Instead, they will be stripped of their components, sliced up in an industrial shredder, and their aluminium melted.

    The MoD has begun sawing the aircraft into pieces. It says it will save £2bn of operation costs by axing the Nimrods and using existing aircraft to perform their duties.

    Mothball costs

    Another option - popular with campaigners who are trying to save the Nimrod - is to mothball the planes, keeping them in storage until such a time as the MoD can afford to fly them.

    But while the ministry is preparing to do this with an aircraft carrier, it will not keep the Nimrods on ice.

    "Storage still incurs a lot of the costs associated with the capability," said an MoD spokesman.

    "It was therefore not a cost effective option."

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