>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

>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...