Some Features of the Application of Nato Standards Regarding Ensuring the Uniformity of Measurements During Testing of Armament and Military Equipment

The intensive implementation of NATO standards is due to Ukraine’s course towards full membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Some results of the implementation of NATO standards are given. The results of organizational and regulatory measures carried out to ensure unity of measurements carried out at the present time, as well as a change in the regulatory and methodological foundations of the creation and functioning of the state system of quality assurance are shown. The purpose of the work is to analyze regulatory acts on the implementation and application of NATO standards at the present stage in the field of ensuring unity of measurement in testing and identifying the features and complexities of these processes. Based on the results of the analysis of regulatory documents, conclusions were drawn regarding the change in the status of NATO standards in Ukraine from national to military and the mandatory application of military standards to enterprises, institutions and organizations of all forms of ownership that perform work and provide services for defense needs. Three groups of military standards have been singled out, which directly or indirectly regulate the requirements for ensuring the unity of measurements during testing of armament and military equipment, as well as specific requirements for them for each group. These groups of standards were developed on the basis of the NATO standardization agreements STANAG 4107, STANAG 4370 and STANAG 4704. The regulatory and legal principles and methodological foundations of the creation and operation of the state system of quality assurance according to STANAG 4107, the features of tests according to STANAG 4370, and issues related to the implementation of STANAG 4704 in in full in Ukraine. Certain difficulties in the implementation of NATO standards in Ukraine are noted and some ways to solve them are given.