The role and place of applied military sports in the physical training of future officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Successful combat missions in local conflicts depend on the level of professional and physical training of servicemen. An effective means of physical training of military personnel are military-applied sports, which, on the one hand, provide for a high general level of physical fitness of military personnel, and on the other, form military-applied skills and abilities necessary in modern combat. The concept of development of physical training and sports in the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the period up to 2020, which was created taking into account the experience of combat operations in eastern Ukraine, NATO standards and the Euro-Atlantic integration vector of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, provides for approximation of physical training. introduction and development of military-applied sports. The article is devoted to the theoretical substantiation of the need to introduce military-applied sports into the educational process of the physical training of future officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Research methods: theoretical analysis of scientific and methodological literature, advanced experience of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, governing documents. It was found that the introduction of military-applied sports in the educational process for the physical training of future officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will contribute to an increase in their level of physical fitness, the upbringing of moral-volitional and psychological qualities, the formation of military-applied motor skills. In turn, this will contribute to the successful fulfillment of combat missions as intended in the process of military professional activity.