The charges that can be used for explosive breaching into urban structures within the engineer mobility support in an urbanized environment

This article deals with the issues of explosive forcible entries (breaching) within the framework of the engineer mobility support of units carrying out combat activities in an urbanized environment. It addresses possible forms of engineer support in this specific operational environment and the characteristics of explosive breaching into urban structures. In the next part, the article provides an overview of selected charges used in this form of engineer support. Further, the article offers an analysis of the respondents' answers based on the structured interviews conducted and a description of significant experience of the authors acquired in the course aimed at forcible entries into urban structures. On the basis of the analysis performed, all purpose sliding charge is designed using the method of synthesis and deduction.