Abstract

Mine weapons, as one of the most affordable means of destroying personnel and weapons and military equipment, are increasingly used in modern military conflicts, which has brought to the fore the issue of maintaining the combat capabilities of troops (forces) in the conditions of "mine warfare". Due to the aggression of the Russian Federation, Ukraine has become the most explosive contaminated country in the world today. During combat operations, one of the most difficult tasks of supporting the troops is to reconnoiter the area for explosive devices, demine the area and make passages in the enemy minefields during the offensive, and in the absence of such, to perform humanitarian demining. To accomplish these tasks, the organizational and staffing structure of the engineer troops provides for appropriate units equipped with both equipment and hand-held reconnaissance and demining kits. However, the reconnaissance and demining kits are currently outdated, inefficient, and do not meet the requirements for performing this type of task. At the same time, due to the obsolescence and unsatisfactory condition of reconnaissance and mechanization of making passages in minefields, the manual method remains the main one, which is extremely dangerous and leads to personnel losses. Given this state of affairs, namely that the manual method of reconnaissance and demining is the main one, the issue of improving (developing) new manual reconnaissance and demining kits has become acute. During the development (improvement) of RCs, one of the fundamental issues is to determine the significance of their parameters. The article presents a partial methodology for comparative evaluation of the parameters of demining kits using the method of expert assessments. The proposed partial methodologyallows determining the weighting coefficients of certain parameters of demining kits. Based on the theoretical provisions presented in the study, an algorithm for processing the results of the expert survey. Finally, the numerical values of the weighting coefficients of the parameters of demining kits are obtained and the direction of further research is formulated.

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