Perhaps when a ship carrying munitions is destroyed, it can drop a few Harbingers right in the middle with a low random velocity (thruster off; i.e. no acceleration). Then they'd collide with the chunks of the ship and explode. Any bombs that happen to make it out of the explosion will be a hazard until they detonate.
I can see this being used as a better kamikaze attack. Instead of having a ship detonate at a certain distance with a explosion of a certain power, you smash the ship literally (maybe add an option to to detonate the ship?) and when the ship cracks open, it explodes, and the then any munitions spill out and explode too.
@Fetter
Don't you think attacking his nationality and writing him off as arrogant and stubborn when he disagrees with you to be a little weak?
The beliefs we had in the past were not observations, nor were they theorised, proved by observation and then scrutinized by others. They were stated, thought out "logically" and then just accepted without testing.
The earth is round, people have pointed out before even Christopher Columbus (rolls eyes) that the earth cannot be flat else why do ships disappear over the horizon? Just that people ignored it.
It wasn't impossible to take the square root of negative numbers. That's just what they tell primary students so they won't ask. It just wasn't defined until they decided to call them imaginary numbers and developed a system to work with them.
Theoretical physics work requires a lot of imagination. It also requires immense skill in math to prove your ideas. That's why crackpots are never taken seriously or given a second thought even if they go to the media. They either state existing theory wrong to "disprove" it or they don't use the conditions stated by the theory. They also have nothing to replace or correct the theory that's able to predict new things, is quantifiable and is backed by observable data.
Incidentally, military equipment is actually obscenely expensive. If I had a single Sidewinder missile and sold it back to the military (without being busted) then I'd be able to get a brand new custom rig every year for the next few years.
If the new weapon can do damage and the damage is deemed necessary, it will be paid for.
The Harbinger was special-issue. It's the only weapon able to crack Shivan capitol ships quickly. Considering that it's a do-or-die situation, I'm not surprised they shelled out the cash to build those things. They go SOOO slow even with the fusion engine.
