Today, the basis of defense planning in Ukraine should be the principles of forming programs and plans for the development of its law enforcement agencies, based on the needs of ensuring the required level of defense capabilities of the country as a whole by finding the optimal balance between defense needs and economic capabilities. The degree of fulfillment of tasks on equipping the Armed Forces of Ukraine (the AFU) with the latest or modernized models of armaments and military equipment (AME) depends on the state of financing of defense needs. Analysis of the availability of basic models of weapons and military equipment in the AFU, as well as the pace of their renewal showed today the most problematic issues of national scale is the state of existing AFU, as well as the current pace of modernization. The number of weapons that need to be replaced, upgraded and repaired is constantly increasing, and their condition is approaching unsatisfactory every year. The development or purchase of new modern models of AME of domestic or foreign production, modernization of existing complexes and systems, individual models of weapons, testing, serial production and equipping of military units of the AFU is an urgent problem today. considered a state-wide problem. In the article the authors analyze the development of AME of the AFU over the years of independence and reveal the dynamics of the ratio of the number of available and required basic samples of AFU to determine the magnitude of their mismatch. Based on the results, the practical recommendations have been developed on the algorithm of modernization of AME of the AFU. Failure to comply with a certain annual percentage of modernization of AME will sooner or later have a negative impact on the country’s military security level. Keywords: combat capabilities, modernization of armaments and military equipment, financing of defense needs, military-economic factors, state of modernization, volumes of financial resources.

The dependence of the effectiveness of ensuring the survivability of weapons and military equipment on the levels of intensity of resistance to various factors is substantiated. These factors characterize, on the one hand, the capabilities of technical means of reconnaissance and fire action of the enemy, on the other hand, the capabilities of forces and means of counteracting him. The latter will help preserve the functions of weapons, during the action of the enemy, and the restoration of his samples, in case of combat damage. These factors in a generalized form should include a set of: means of reconnaissance and fire destruction of weapons samples by the enemy anddisguising means of operation of weapons samples, radio-absorbingmaterials for camouflage weapons model, significantly reduce its visibility. Requirements and possibilities of effective protection of armament with the help of radio-absorbing polymeric ferrite materials of microwave and infrared wave ranges from radar means and thermal imagers of technical reconnaissance by the enemy are substantiated. Determined: the dependence of the rate of preservation of weapons functions, in the case of radar camouflage, the range of their detection by enemy technical means, the dependence of the parameters of the forecast trend of change over time. Determining the predictive evaluation of the effectiveness of the system to ensure the survivability of samples helps, first, to take timely measures for their proper camouflage, to eliminate the possibility of technical means of enemy reconnaissance to detect these samples and damage by fire, and secondly, helps to intensify efforts in order to accelerate the recovery of the injured during the battle. Keywords: armaments and military equipment, forecast estimates of survivability, means of technical intelligence, preservation of functions and restoration of weapons.