[Joule_Gayatte]

Actually, I recently learned that at that time it could take a lot to shoot down a zeppelin. Between the huge fighter escort they usually had with them and the fact that the bullets that the machine guns were firing would only make a tiny hole in the zeppelin it was quite a task to deal with them. Late in the war the Entente tried arming the Spad. XIII and a couple of other fighter types with rockets in order to make it easier to destroy them quickly.