I think you’d need to put a lot of shots into the skirt to make the air loss significant enough to stop it.

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.

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?

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

Seems like a perfect use for kevlar if they ever needed a modern version.

If you hit the pilot, yes.