User blog comment:RA2/Getting other people to post comments for me/@comment-1011118-20120705154953

Not going to name any names, but people need to stop taking information from facebook that doesn't make any sense. In this instance I'm talking about Typhoon 2's self-destruct button. Someone claimed it to be a srimech button, but a little bit of crticial thinking makes it crystal clear that that can't be right, it would need some sort of retractable arm, and there was no way that they had enough weight left over for something like that, nevermind the question of where would they even put it? Once again my scrutiny paid off, here's the real answer from Gary Cairns:

''There wasn't a schrimech in Typhoon 2. We looked at putting one in and had a number of ideas including car air bags or a giant ring on top however at the end of the day we decided not to bother as they would take away from the look of the machine.

The "self destruct" button was originally used in the middleweight typhoon to set off a series of theatrical smoke and flash bangs (you can see one go off in the first hit of it's first outing if you look close) however when the transmitter and buddy box were used in typhoon 2, the button activated the engine start'''

If someone could paraphrase this for either Typhoon or Typhoon 2's page, that would be most appreciated, I'm locked out again.