Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Mechanical Engineering 2 7 2014 10 09 Modelling of an Explosion of an Improvised Explosive Device a Vehicle 209 215 EN Turza Jozef Faculty of Special Technology, Trenčín University of A. Dubček in Trenčín Eliáš Jozef Kopiláková Beáta Rakúsová Danka AJME2014278 10.12691/ajme-2-7-8 2014 09 05 2014 09 15 2014 10 09 An aim of the paper is to define behaviour of a combat vehicle based on an analysis of its movement from a point of a maximum vertical movement, acceleration and forces through development of a mathematical model of a vehicle during an operation of the vehicle in critical situations of a modern battlefield.