Underlying rationale for the necessary protection level of medium weight category robotic vehicles

The article analyzes the semistrategic conditions of military robotic vehicles combat employment. We consider the requirements applicable to the unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) and formulated based on the feasible direction of further development. These requirements refer to designing the UGV on the basis of light armoured combat vehicles. We have chosen the main combat mission of the UGV in order to assess their self-protection on the battlefield. The article also analyzes the impact of both obsolete and modern UGV destruction means in the current combat conditions and offers the ways to improve the UGV protective properties. We make proposals on improving the self-protection in various conditions of delivering combat, in which we take into account the data concerning the armament and combatant branches of the potential enemy.

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