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US hovercraft on patrol, Vietnam War, 1968
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Seems like an easy thing to disable. A couple of shots to the pontoons would stop it, right?
I think you'd need to put a lot of shots into the skirt to make the air loss significant enough to stop it.
They're not actually inflated like a balloon, it's a skirt so the contact patch with the ground is actually just a thin ring.
Hovercrafts actually work without the skirt, but sit much lower above the water. The channel hovercraft needed to have their skirts patched up almost weekly, since waves ripped big holes into it. Thus I assume that one won't be able to disable this craft with guns. Barbed wire might be more effective?
it seems that way, but there's been two different occasions where fighter aircraft tried shooting down weather balloons with guns and it didn't work
And those don't even have fans constantly replenishing their air supply.
Seems like a perfect use for kevlar if they ever needed a modern version.
Kevlar needs hardened strike plates to stop rifle rounds. Funnily enough, we're actually just right back around at plate armor with cloth tabards as personal protection and no one seems to notice.
Wooden heat shields on spaceships.
If you hit the pilot, yes.