Thread: Hovercraft Battle Bot

I was browsing the build rules for Robot Wars & FRA events, for an idea me and friend had about hosting, I'll be posting a thread about that in a few days, but one thing on the Robot Wars rules stuck out that I just had to post about, you can view the document in its entirity here. However this is what I am referring to;

3.1 All Robots must have (easily visible mobility) in order to compete.
Methods of mobility include:
[..]
3.1.4 Ground Effect air cushions such as a hovercraft
[..]

A quick search led me to note that in Robot Wars, no hovercraft based vehicles have competed, at least listed on the wiki.

This led to me thinking, how would you even approach this, how can it be approached to begin with? It'll be very easy to rupture the skirt and have your air bubble escape faster than its restored and leave you grounded, you might be able to add skirt strips of metal, but good luck against something like PP3D with its low spinner.

Assuming that is overcome, I can't think of any weapons that'd work. Surely everything will bounce you back slightly and not be able to sustain the attack? Maybe a spinner might go fast enough that it'd do some damage before it bounced you everywhere?

I'd love to perhaps see a hovercraft fighting bot prototype, or maybe even an entry attempt (lets face it, if it has any where near potential, it'd probably get on purely for it being a new thing), so how would others approach this? Perhaps maybe the specific noting of that in the Robot Wars build rules is an vague invitation that they'd like to see it come to fruition, so might be worth me trying to pursue any series potential.