Generolo Jono Žemaičio Lietuvos karo akademija

Airfield infrastructure represents a critical element of national defence and a key enabler of NATO Host Nation Support (HNS). Modern conflicts demonstrate that airfields are priority targets, and even limited damage to runways can significantly disrupt air operations. NATO standards, particularly STANAG 2929 and AATMP‑03, therefore define Airfield Damage Repair (ADR) as a mandatory capability enabling rapid restoration of airfield functionality. This paper analyses ADR as an essential component of HNS and assesses the current state of ADR capability in the Czech Republic. Based on NATO doctrinal requirements and national research outcomes, the study highlights existing capability gaps and outlines key measures necessary to ensure compliance with alliance obligations and to enhance national and collective resilience.

The article deals with measurements of air blast pressure waves using pencil probes. The pressure waves from explosive detonations were recorded using pencil probes in different setups, arrangements, and at multiple standoff distances. Another step is to get data from measurements to be used in other applications. Several blast parameters are presented as a baseline for further analysis (peak overpressure, rise time, positive-phase duration, impulse). The approach should support later comparison and uncertainty assessment with analytical data.

The article deals with military fortification constructions, their evaluation and field experimentation. Furthermore, it discusses legal standards, international and national regulations that set parameters and effects on military fortification structures. The diagnosis of structures can be characterized as a statement of differences between the assumed (projected) state and the current state of the examined structure. While field experimentation is an effect on structures and monitoring behavior and changes in the state of the structure. Considering the specific accidental actions, it is necessary to use diagnostic procedures other than conventional constructions, especially regarding the impossibility of breaking the structure by removing the specimen. It is necessary to evaluate the structure for a different type of action than usual. Some field tests were conducted at the Department of Engineer Technology according to STANG 2280. Some, however, were carried out according to their own procedure. These activities are referred to in the paper as field experiments and were used mainly to verify mathematical simulations of the behavior of actioned structures, and to make the experiments of field experiments more precise.