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Transporting people in airship has never been made safe, and I don't think it can ever be. Anybody with a rifle can deflate an airship, where as planes can resi

by gxt 4y ago

Transporting people in airship has never been made safe, and I don't think it can ever be. Anybody with a rifle can deflate an airship, where as planes can resist these low skill attacks. The only business case to be made for airships is cargo.

kspacewalk2 4y ago
>Anybody with a rifle can deflate an airship But in fact: >If the vehicle does find itself in a flashpoint, Metzger’s confident that the its skin – a blend of Vectran, Kevlar and Mylar – will be able to cope with a reasonable amount of small arms fire. ‘It’s a woven fabric and has a lot of redundancy in it to mitigate tears, if one was to experience a bullet hole it’s not going to propagate the length of the hole. You may lose a little bit of helium but the pressure between the inside of the hull and the outside is not very great so a small anomaly like that is not going to cause any significant damage.’[1] [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20190415183800/https://www.theengineer.co.uk/issues/12-july-2010/meet-lemv-the-first-of-a-new-generation-of-advanced-military-airship/ https://web.archive.org/web/20190415183800/https://www.theen...
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- dmix 4y ago
  > You may lose a little bit of helium but the pressure between the inside of the hull and the outside is not very great so a small anomaly like that is not going to cause any significant damage.’ The key bit of the quote
ClumsyPilot 4y ago
> Anybody with a rifle can deflate an airship, where as planes can resist these low skill attacks. This is a complete fabrication Airhsips bombed London with impunity in WW1, Machinegun fire was useless, they would take many days to deflate through bulletholes. Only after intruduction of incendiary ammunition they became vulnerable. Modern airships use helium and inflamable materials, so your guy with a rifle is useless.
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by gxt 4y ago

kspacewalk2 4y ago

>Anybody with a rifle can deflate an airship But in fact: >If the vehicle does find itself in a flashpoint, Metzger’s confident that the its skin – a blend of Vectran, Kevlar and Mylar – will be able to cope with a reasonable amount of small arms fire. ‘It’s a woven fabric and has a lot of redundancy in it to mitigate tears, if one was to experience a bullet hole it’s not going to propagate the length of the hole. You may lose a little bit of helium but the pressure between the inside of the hull and the outside is not very great so a small anomaly like that is not going to cause any significant damage.’[1] [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20190415183800/https://www.theengineer.co.uk/issues/12-july-2010/meet-lemv-the-first-of-a-new-generation-of-advanced-military-airship/ https://web.archive.org/web/20190415183800/https://www.theen...

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dmix 4y ago
> You may lose a little bit of helium but the pressure between the inside of the hull and the outside is not very great so a small anomaly like that is not going to cause any significant damage.’ The key bit of the quote

ClumsyPilot 4y ago

> Anybody with a rifle can deflate an airship, where as planes can resist these low skill attacks. This is a complete fabrication Airhsips bombed London with impunity in WW1, Machinegun fire was useless, they would take many days to deflate through bulletholes. Only after intruduction of incendiary ammunition they became vulnerable. Modern airships use helium and inflamable materials, so your guy with a rifle is useless.

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