Improvised explosive devices in confrontation with the protection armour

The paper describes the risk for carrying structures of special vehicles used in the stabilization and peacekeeping missions. Presented map regions of the world threatened by conflicts, which may be areas for future International peacekeeping forces. Among the hazards occurring in the missions improvised explosives devices (IED) deserve special attention. Difficult to detect and identify, acting unpredictably, high-power is destruction. Based on the available material and the results of their experimental studies are presented effects ofexplosives on special vehicles. It takes into account the cases of impact load during the flghting in the urban area, desert and mountainous. The currently used improvised explosives devices and methods of their initiation are described. Presented used in vehicles ways to protect people and internal equipment against destruction factors of explosives. The effects of the influence of loads on vehicles are shown. The results of its own, both experimental and model tests are presented. The results ofthe analysis presented in the drawings and diagrams. Carried out experimental researches have allowed to obtain Information necessary to verify: research object models in terms of assessing the level of deformation on the structure and size of dynamic load acting on crews of combat vehicles, and numerical model of the propagation of after explosion shock waves.