СТВОРЕННЯ І РОЗВИТОК ВІТЧИЗНЯНИХ ЗАСОБІВ ІНДИВІДУАЛЬНОГО БРОНЬОВОГО ЗАХИСТУ ВОЇНА ПІД ЧАС АНТИТЕРОРИСТИЧНОЇ ОПЕРАЦІЇ НА СХОДІ УКРАЇНИ (2014 – 2017 рр.)

Abstract

The author of the article considers the problems of creation and improvement of the means of individual armor protection of soldiers in combat during the conduct of the anti-terrorist operation in the East of Ukraine in 2014 - 2017. At the same time, the main attention is paid to the creation and improvement of the main element of armor protection of a serviceman - a bulletproof vest. At the same time, it draws attention to the creation of the main components and materials of which body armor is made. While revealing this process in complex, the author pay attention to the difficult situation in Ukraine, especially at the beginning of the anti-terrorist operation. The fact that the process of creation and improvement of the domestic bulletproof vest in 2014 - 2017 noted a fierce competitive struggle between manufacturers for the market of their products. TEMP-3000 LLC won this fight. The author draws attention to the fact that in the first year of conducting an anti-terrorist operation to provide military personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, who participated in it, often received bulletproof vests with low protective properties. Only a principled approach to the assessment of their quality by the control laboratories of the I. Chernyakhovsky National University and the Central Research Institute of Arms and Military Equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine did not allow to accept them into service. Pointing to this, the author, however, confirms that such facts occurred, mainly, in the first year of conducting an anti-terrorist operation in the east of Ukraine under conditions of acute shortage in these funds. In specific examples, the author shows that significant progress has been made in the development of PPE during the anti-terrorist operation. Comparing the samples of body armor during the beginning and end of the anti-terrorist operation, the author emphasizes that in many ergonomic, operational and protective characteristics they were not inferior to the world standards, and in some respects exceeded them. Analyzing the process of creating individual armor protection in the period of ATO in 2014 - 2017, the author concludes that the most promising is highly specialized bulletproof vests, designed to solve combat tasks in specific conditions, with different levels of protection by zones, area and mass, with different options.