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These are actually not very susceptible to small arms fire, they don't need a perfect seal to stay aloft, there are cases of tethered observation blimps being used in the US war in Afghanistan that would be taken down and they would find them full of holes from gunfire (I mean, I get it, especially in that region your roof is your private space...).
The other thing is that they can fly quite high, they would occupy spaces that traditional aircraft wouldn't be ideal for, definitely but that is why you shouldn't compare this ridiculous monstrosity directly to other aircraft, it is a different thing.
It really is unlike any other aircraft ever built, it is continually strange to me that this wasn't just a vaporwave idea that never made it past planning.