Creating of Minefield Breaches with Artillery

Michal Švehlík, Michal Šustr, Ladislav Potužák, Jaroslav Varecha, Jan Drábek

2023

Abstract

This article describes research project about new approach to creating breaches in engineer obstacles by using artillery fire. In current russian-ukraine war can be observed massive use of explosive and non-explosive obstacles within position defence. Efficiency of attack of task forces is in this case directly influenced by their ability to overcome these obstacles. Main issue for the attacking force represents minefields which slow down and restrict manoeuvre and cause casualties. Breaches in minefields are created by units of combat engineers manually or by special mine clearing equipment. During that time is the unit threatened by the enemy, especially special engineering equipment is a priority target. The aim of the research is to propose and verify the possibility of using artillery as a mean to create breaches in engineer obstacles, especially in minefields, giving the attacking force alternative, contingency or emergency way of creating breach. The article introduces basic aspects of explosive obstacles and minefields, analyses tactical aspects of creating breaches in them and proposes possible approaches to solving the problematics by using artillery.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Švehlík M., Šustr M., Potužák L., Varecha J. and Drábek J. (2023). Creating of Minefield Breaches with Artillery. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO; ISBN 978-989-758-670-5, SciTePress, pages 266-272. DOI: 10.5220/0012208500003543

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco23,
author={Michal Švehlík and Michal Šustr and Ladislav Potužák and Jaroslav Varecha and Jan Drábek},
title={Creating of Minefield Breaches with Artillery},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO},
year={2023},
pages={266-272},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012208500003543},
isbn={978-989-758-670-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO
TI - Creating of Minefield Breaches with Artillery
SN - 978-989-758-670-5
AU - Švehlík M.
AU - Šustr M.
AU - Potužák L.
AU - Varecha J.
AU - Drábek J.
PY - 2023
SP - 266
EP - 272
DO - 10.5220/0012208500003543
PB - SciTePress