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Surely you could design some redundancy into the hull? It's not like the ship needs to be one giant gas bubble. It can be a mesh of a few hundred bubbles that could each pop without bringing the whole thing down.



Surely you could design your tracer bullet launcher around repeatable processes, so that you could send a few more shortly after?

Don't even need to pop all the bubbles. Just enough for lift < weight. Gravity automates the rest.


So several hundred times the weight of the pressure envelope? Tracer bullets was only an example. Airships would be spectacularly vulnerable to all sorts of modes of attack.


So… 100 tracer bullets instead?




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