Aviation is heavily regulated, right down to how to properly dismantle a retired aircraft. Boneyards are the high-tech recycling facilities where it happens.

What happens to old warplanes? The answer lies in The Boneyard, a massive desert storage site filled with thousands of retired military aircraft. Some will be dismantled, others saved for future wars.

Following is a description of the video: Narrator: The 309th AMARG stores the world's largest collection of military aircraft here in the Arizona desert. Col. Jennifer Barnard: I like to call this ...

Once the pride of Britain’s RAF and Royal Navy, the now stripped-down Harrier vertical take-off jump jets sit like skeletons in the famous US aircraft ‘Boneyard’ in the Arizona desert.

More than 50 years on from its first flight, the iconic fighter jet remains one of the most iconic aircraft in the world.