[Vehicles] How big should a self-destruct be?

[DataPacRat]

Originally Posted by Anthony

There isn't really a method of leaving no trace -- any explosion enough to leave no traces of the shell will be big enough to be a 'obviously something unusual was here' trace by itself.

Sorry, I phrased myself badly; I don't necessarily mean no trace of the probe ever having existed, just no trace of the AI's programming or data.