THE METHOD FOR DEVELOPING REQUIREMENTS FOR SHOT NOISE CHARACTERISTICS FOR ENSURING CONCEALED PERFORMANCE OF FIRE TASKS BY THE SECURITY FORCES

Abstract

A shot from a small-arms weapon is accompanied by a sound that helps the enemy to reveal the fact of using the weapon and unmask the location of the shooter, so sound masking is necessary in some cases.

To increase the concealment of the use of small arms, devices for reducing the sound level of the shot (PZRZP) and samples of silent (low-noise) weapons are used. Existing models of low-noise weapons and devices for reducing the noise of a shot are mostly designed for defense forces and cannot provide an acceptable level of acoustic concealment in the conditions of fire missions by security forces.

Modern manufacturers are proactively developing gunshot noise reduction devices and offer their products illustrating the comparative reduction of gunshot noise with and without the use of a gunshot sound reduction device. In this case, for the conscious choice of devices for reducing the sound level of a shot, it is necessary to have reasonable requirements for the characteristics of the sound of the shot, which ensure the covert use of weapons in certain conditions of the execution of the firing task. Thus, there is a need to improve the methodical apparatus for the formation of requirements for gunshot noise characteristics for the most justified choice of a gunshot sound reduction device from among those offered by the market or being developed or modernized.

The article has developed a methodology for the formation of requirements for the characteristics of gunshot noise to ensure covert execution of fire missions by security forces. The specified technique allows you to form requirements for the characteristics of gunshot noise, which ensure covert execution of a firing task in certain conditions, as well as to check the possibility of implementing these requirements on the basis of one or another sample of weapons, taking into account the possibility of correcting gunshot noise parameters and applying sound masking.

In addition, the developed technique can be used to form requirements for the technical characteristics of devices for reducing the sound level of a shot and low-noise weapons at the stages of their development and modernization.