ПІДХІД ДО ВИЗНАЧЕННЯ ПОКАЗНИКА БОЄЗДАТНОСТІ БОЙОВИХ БРОНЬОВАНИХ КОЛІСНИХ МАШИН

Abstract

The experience of combat operations and military conflicts in recent decades has shown the increasing role of wheeled armored vehicles (WAVs). In recent years, a significant number of wheeled armored vehicles have been developed, manufactured and adopted by military formations and law enforcement agencies of Ukraine for various purposes. These WAVs are widely used to eliminate illegal armed groups, sabotage and reconnaissance groups, patrolling or clearing areas of special operations, providing fire support for tactical, special, reconnaissance and mobile groups, and moving troops quickly with the required level of protection. The main property of WAVs that characterizes its adaptability to perform the intended combat tasks is their combat capability. In modern scientific literature, there is no single approach and procedure for determining this property of military equipment. Therefore, the purpose of the article is to define the concept of combat capability of WAVs, their components, to obtain a dependence for assessing the level of combat capability of WAVs and to determine the impact of individual properties on it. The article defines the concept of combat capability of WAVs, provides a mathematical apparatus for determining the complex indicator of combat capability of various WAVs, taking into account the reliability, security, armament, stability and recoverability of equipment. Evaluation of combat capability of WAVs allows to determine the impact of various factors on the combat capability indicator and to identify the ways to ensure the combat capability of military equipment at the proper level. The direction of further research is to study the influence of the wheeled armored vehicles properties on the performance of the intended tasks by the units of the National Guard of Ukraine.