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The damaging effects of weapons and ammunition can be described by different parameters. For example, for fragmentation ammunition, such characteristics are sometimes used as the number of effective fragments, the distance at which a fragment is able to pierce a barrier of a given thickness. The effect of ammunition with shaped charges is assessed by the thickness of the pierced armor. To assess the effect of high‐explosive ammunition, the value of overpressure at the front of the shock wave is used, and so on. These vastly different parameters do not allow for sufficient characterization of the damaging effect and, thus, to compare various ammunition types with each other. This makes the task of selecting and justifying the design parameters of the newly developed munitions even more challenging.

To solve these problems, the so‐called generalized characteristics of the damaging effect are used, which contain information about the design parameters of the ammunition, the particular indicators of their damaging effect, the vulnerability of the target, the conditions for the use of ammunition, and the degree of damage to the target.