US hovercraft on patrol, Vietnam War, 1968
US hovercraft on patrol, Vietnam War, 1968
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrol_Air_Cushion_Vehicle
Very cool. Seems like a good idea for the terrain. $1 million each makes it a hard sell vs 13 patrol boats. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrol_Boat,_River
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Seems like an easy thing to disable. A couple of shots to the pontoons would stop it, right?
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I think you'd need to put a lot of shots into the skirt to make the air loss significant enough to stop it.
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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.
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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?
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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
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And those don't even have fans constantly replenishing their air supply.
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If you hit the pilot, yes.
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No amount of armor plating will hide the fact that the bottom part is an inflatable bubble.
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In that moment, that guy was cooler than I'll ever be.
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