METHODS OF ENSURING THE DEFINED LEVEL OF COMBAT SURVIVAL OF ARMORED WHEELED VEHICLES

The experience of military conflicts of the last decades has shown the constantly growing role of armored wheeled vehicles (AWVs). In recent years, a significant number of AWVs of various purposes have been developed and adopted by the security forces of Ukraine: armored personnel carriers; carriers of anti-tank weapons, anti-aircraft weapons, mortars; machines of radio-electronic intelligence and radio-electronic warfare; medical evacuation vehicles, etc. AWVs that deliver personnel to the battlefield, provide their fire support, or are equipped with powerful weapons and other combat equipment are being the priority targets for the enemy. AWVs damages significantly reduce the probability (or completely makes it impossible) to perform a specific combat task, therefore there is an objective need to ensure a certain minimum level of survivability of an armored wheeled vehicle in order to preserve its combat capability and ensure the performance of the intended tasks. Therefore, the purpose of the article is to create a methodology for ensuring a given level of combat survivability of armored wheeled vehicles. A technique for ensuring a given level of combat survivability of AWVs has been developed. It allows to obtain combat survivability indicators that correspond to a given level of combat survivability by the consistent improvement of the vehicle operational characteristics. The methodology can be used to form the requirements for the technical characteristics of armored wheeled vehicles at the stage of their development and modernization, as well as to assess the compliance of the existing AWVs with the requirements for combat survivability. The direction of further research is to study the impact of other armored wheeled vehicles properties on combat survivability.