Assessment of lethality, vulnerability and risk, Annual report 2020

Authors:

  • Mats Hartmann
  • Matilda Ågren

Publish date: 2020-12-31

Report number: FOI-R--5031--SE

Pages: 15

Written in: Swedish

Keywords:

  • lethality
  • vulnerability
  • human
  • ship
  • crater
  • ballistic missile
  • cruise missile

Abstract

The project "Värdering av verkan, sårbarhet och risk" (eng: Assessment of lethality, vulnerability and risk) is one of the projects within the research and development area Weapons and protection. It started 2020 and is planned to continue until 2022, aiming to increase the abilities and methodologies to perform assessments of weapon lethality and target vulnerability. A specific designated field of work is human vulnerability, but the project covers all kinds of conventional warhead effects and all targets except from submarines. Some of the fields of work this year has been: - Human vulnerability. - Assessment of effects in ships. - Methodology documentation of performed work. - Effects in ballistic missiles and cruise missiles. - Evaluation of a cratering model. This summarizing annual report gives short descriptions of work performed during the year as well as a few examples of how the competence has been used in other projects.