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Funny you mention that, RAF was formed in 1918... By then the Zeppelins were absolutely on their way out, nothing like their best days sometime around 1915. Do not underestimate the terribleness and unavailability of WW1 era anti air weapons. They even sucked against biplanes after all. The...

They aren't *that* slow. This is about indicative of modern technology based airship. https://www.aerospace-technology.com/projects/hav304-airlander/ Cruise speed of 150 km/h is just about 50 km/h short of some old but still used helicopters like Mi-2. The bigger issue is how much easier to hit...

It's also not a good idea to fly a An-2 over one, or most helicopters for that matter.

For some uses slow moving is not that great of a problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-2#Current And then there are pure civilian uses. Overall, i think the weather problem and operating costs are the real show stopper. You need a pretty big airship to carry the cargo a cheap twin...