Editing Self-destruct (section)

===Military ships===
Another form of a self-destruct system can be seen in the [[Navy|naval]] procedure of [[scuttling]], which is used to destroy a ship or ships to prevent them from being seized<ref>{{cite web|title=Scapa Flow Scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet|url=http://www.worldwar1.co.uk/scuttle.html|work=World War 1 Naval Combat|publisher=World War I UK|access-date=28 May 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Scuttling the Navy August 29, 1943: August 29, 1943 - the turning point|url=http://www.navalhistory.dk/english/history/1939_1945/us_safari.htm|work=Danish Naval History|publisher=Johnny E. Balsved|access-date=28 May 2012}}</ref> and/or [[Reverse engineering|reverse engineered]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Eilam|first=Eldad|title=Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering|url=https://archive.org/details/reversingsecrets00eila_683|url-access=limited|year=2005|publisher=Wily Publishing|isbn=978-0-7645-7481-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/reversingsecrets00eila_683/page/n32 3]}}</ref>

Generally the scuttling of a ship uses strategically-placed explosive charges by a demolition crew and/or the deliberate cutting open of the hull rather than an in-built self-destruct system.