Personnel sanitary losses in fleet aviation and Air force during wars and armed conflicts
On basis of analysis of the domestic and foreign literary sources there are the modern views on the classification of the personnel sanitary losses in military conflicts presented, the rate and structure of combat and non-combat sanitary casualties of the naval aviation and air force flying and ground staff in wars and armed conflicts in the XX - early XXI centuries considered. Special attention is given to definitions, quantitative and qualitative indicators of reactive states as part of the combat sanitary casualties in the modern war conditions. It is established that sanitary loss dividing into combat and non-combat within the framework of current classification is out of date, it is proposed to separate the group of temporary unfightable from the total loss amount. In view of air-unit personnel dividing into flying and ground, sanitary loss occurrence in these groups has its own particular qualities. In the first case it's connected with particularities of air-work specificity, and in the second it's due to the more favorable location and feeding conditions in aviation comparably to the land-forces, together with the limited coverabilities of personnel in the fortification constructions during aviation equipment preparing to the combat flights on the airdrome. The experience of the last military conflicts confirms that the rate of irrecoverable casualties of air staff depends on the death possibility as a result of flight accidents, which is determined by difficulty of combat aviation equipment driving even with superficial wounds. Very important is high-quality search-and-rescue support organization of flying staff abandoned the aircraft in emergency case and made a crash landing (ditching). On the ground of analysis of surgical profile sanitary loss amount in relation to therapeutic profile sanitary casualties in military conflicts of the past century have identified and scientifically proved the disease incidence dependence of warring sides on military conflict continuance and combat activity.