Proposals for an algorithm for determining combat losses of personnel for the purpose of predicting changes in the combat efficiency of weapons and military equipment

The article presents proposals for an algorithm for determining combat sanitary and irreversible losses of personnel in order to predict changes in the effectiveness of the combat use of weapons and military equipment. To do this, the authors proposed a coefficient for maintaining the effectiveness of combat use, which takes into account the results of the joint functioning of such systems: provision of workable samples of weapons and military equipment (subsystems of production and procurement, restoration, reserve); provision of expendable material and technical means (missiles and ammunition, fuels and lubricants): training systems for military personnel (crews). The coefficient theoretically confirms the fact that the effectiveness of combat use of a unit (subdivision) during military operations depends on the availability of combat-ready weapons and military equipment, including those equipped with trained crews, consumable material and technical resources (missiles and ammunition, materials, etc.). Based on this, the authors proposed an algorithm for determining combat sanitary and irretrievable losses based on the use of the expert assessment method. The fundamental novelty of the proposed proposals is that the determination of combat sanitary and irretrievable losses is carried out taking into account the amount of average daily losses of weapons and military equipment during combat operations and their structure. That is, the authors have established a relationship between the degree of damage to a weapon and military equipment sample (weak, medium and strong damage to a weapon and military equipment sample received as a result of fire from the enemy) and combat sanitary and irretrievable losses of personnel. This allows for a more accurate determination of the number of combat-ready weapons and military equipment samples (working weapons and military equipment samples, equipped with a crew and expendable material and technical means) in a unit (subdivision), which allows for forecasting changes in the effectiveness of their combat use. In the future, the proposed proposals can be used in headquarters (services) for planning the use of troops (forces) during combat operations.