JUSTIFICATION OF EFFECTIVE WAY OF DRINKING WATER SUPPLY TO UNITS WHEN PERFORMING TASKS AS ASSIGNED

The article is devoted to the research of variants of drinking water supply of National Guard of Ukraine units which perform their tasks according to their assignment outside the permanent deployment points. The article also deals with theoretical provisions, which can be taken as a basis for the methodology of substantiation of the optimal plan of such supply. It is noted that drinking water is an important resource in the system of food supply of military units, the lack or shortage of which for a relatively short period of time significantly affects the combat capabilities of the units. Based on this, the possibility of diversifying the sources of drinking water supply for the needs of the troops is studied. Both traditional options of drinking water supply for NGU needs and new ones, which are expected to be implemented in practice in the near future, are considered. Expanding the list of possible sources of potable water supply will contribute to increasing the reliability of water supply and reducing the cost of related logistics operations. Taking into account the presented options for providing drinking water, possible points of delivery of bottled drinking water to units that perform their tasks autonomously in difficult conditions were identified. The presence of several points of drinking water supply to units necessitates the development of a water supply plan. One of the key requirements for such a plan is minimization of total costs. It is shown that the transport problem of linear programming can be used as the basis for developing an optimal plan for supplying drinking bottled water to military units. In this case, the target function is reduced to a minimum of total costs of water delivery. The constraints affecting the processes and determining the search area of the optimal solution are formulated, the general approach to solving the formulated optimization problem is characterized.