Tornado lives on in Tempest

A pilot project run by the UK’s Defence Recycling & Disposals Team highlights an innovative way to reuse strategic materials recovered from retired military assets. In a first of its kind initiative, a recycling programme is making use of parts from retired combat aircraft to create components for the UK’s next generation of military aircraft under the Tornado 2 Tempest project. Individual parts from the retired combat jets have been ground down and used to create new components ‘suitable for