Improved method of assessing the combat capabilities of the artillery of the mechanism brigade

Abstract

The experience of repelling and deterring the armed aggression of the Russian Federation indicates the need to carry out a significant amount of joint fire support tasks for combined military units and units. This, in turn, indicates the growing requirements for the implementation of the combat capabilities of artillery units to perform the volume of fire support tasks in the battle of the mechanized brigade.
 The conducted analysis of the conduct of artillery combat operations in the battle of the mechanized brigade indicates that the tasks associated with the need to increase the level of realization of the potential combat capabilities of the artillery and bring them into line with the volume of fire missions that can rely on it are problematic and relevant today in the battle of the mechanized brigade.
 In order to solve these tasks, there is an urgent need to use modern approaches to assessing the combat capabilities of artillery units, which would take into account the changes that have occurred in the tactics of actions, the spatial and temporal parameters of the conduct of artillery combat operations, the effects of damage and allow better planning of fire support by artillery in battle mechanized brigade. According to these requirements, the assessment of the combat capabilities of artillery should become an important component of planning the combined fire support in the battle of the mechanized brigade.
 Therefore, there is an urgent task regarding the improvement of the methodology for assessing the combat capabilities of the artillery of a mechanized brigade, the use of which will make it possible to bring the combat load of artillery units into compliance with the volume of firing tasks of artillery in the battle of a mechanized brigade, taking into account modern requirements, conditions and time constraints for their execution.
 The improved method of assessing the combat capabilities of the artillery of the mechanized brigade, unlike the existing methods and approaches, takes into account such a set of conditions and factors that allow predicting the effectiveness of the tasks of artillery units of different purposes and properties (differently effective fire means). To take into account the combined effect of fire, reconnaissance, maneuver, support and management and communication capabilities of artillery units based on the number of combat cycles of their actions. It is expedient to calculate the possibilities for carrying out a certain amount of firing tasks with the allocated resource of ammunition of various types under established spatial and temporal time limits and probable enemy countermeasures.
 Based on the results of the comparison of the defined volume of fire tasks and the number of combat cycles, it is possible to make a final calculation of the possible combat load of each artillery unit from fire support per day of battle during the planning of fire support by artillery in the battle of a mechanized brigade.