Assessment of lethality, vulnerability and risk. Annual report 2025

Authors:

  • Mats Hartmann
  • Niklas Johansson
  • Jens Bennström
  • Peter Bull
  • David Andersson
  • Jens Danielsson
  • Matilda Ågren
  • Camilla Andersson
  • Jacob Andersson
  • Emil Björklund

Publish date: 2026-03-03

Report number: FOI-R--5859--SE

Pages: 19

Written in: Swedish

Keywords:

  • lethality
  • vulnerability
  • human vulnerability
  • ship
  • kill criteria

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 program Weapons and protection. The project started in 2023 and was planned to continue until the end of 2025, this has now changed to the end of 2026. The project strides to improve the methodologies to perform assessments of weapon lethality and target vulnerability. Some of the fields of work this year has been:. Human vulnerability. Methodology description of above water threats against ships. Vulnerability studies of platforms in the design phase. Component kill criteria. Methodology for aimpoint suggestions. This summarising annual report gives short descriptions of work performed during the year, as well as a few examples of how the competence gained from this project has been used in other projects.