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Why would you need to do that? You can mount them like any other plane, again everything that isn't gas isn't crammed in the gondola. Seriously, there's no issue mounting guns on the sides, the back, the top, or whatever, these things aren't hot air balloons. The P-Class, f'rex, had 7 or 8...

... Seriously? Airships have multiple redundant engines. The little box on the bottom doesn't have the crew, those are mainly inside the envelope in anything except the extremely tiny models that are used for only hours at a time. The gondola or control car is there to give the pilot a better...

That's not what I was arguing. The US has plenty of weapons that can take down an airship, I was specifically stating that "random Hummvee with a machine gun" is not going to cut it, you actually need that significantly heavier firepower.

This one Imma so no, absolutely not. Airships are insanely tough and take massive amounts of firepower to do any significant damage to. On top of that they're normally built with extremely durable skins anyway, Kevlar being the current material of choice so bullets are a non-starter. Punching...

Airships really aren't all that slow. The current record held by Zeppelin NT* is 118mph and modern airships routinely have cruise speeds of 80+mph. While this is not jet speed, compared to just about any other vehicle they're extremely fast. *Said name rather ticks me off because Zeppelin NT...

Cribbing a bit off this thread, let's talk airships. Zeppelins, semirigids, blimps, all lighter-than-air craft. In our timeline they exist only for extremely niche applications and aren't competitive with heavier-than-air planes and jets. While they're standard for Steampunk, those worlds...