> No mention of plasma cutters. I think a big enough plasma cutter will make the plasma go around the ceramic to reach the conductive metal and the ceramic will

> No mention of plasma cutters. I think a big enough plasma cutter will make the plasma go around the ceramic to reach the conductive metal and the ceramic will fall out. Any method that lets you attack the aluminum and avoid the ceramic will be extremely effective. I suspect the simplest effective attack is to just apply a shearing force - something like cable cutters although ideally with less of an edge so they're less vulnerable to deformation. As long as the tool doesn't rely on a cutting edge to work, it should be able to ignore the ceramic component of the composite material.