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 t he world threatened by conflicts, which may be areas for future international peacekeeping forces. Among the haz ards occurring in t he 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 of explosives on special vehicles. It take s into acc ount the c ases of impact load during the fighting i n the urban area, desert and mountainous. The currently used i mprovised explosives devices and methods of their initiation are described. Presented used in vehicles ways to protect people and i nternal 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 of the analysis presented in the drawings and diagrams. Carried out experimental researches have allowed t o obtain i nformation necessary to verify: rese arch 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.