Challenges to national defence in contemporary geopolitical situation

This article focuses on decision making to select the optimum variant of the product based on the evaluation of the criteria and the analysis of the variants of the product according to the available criteria. The introduction offers an overview of the existing method of multicriteria analysis, including a description of the principles on which the methods are based. The method of analysis was used for the optimal variant of the selection of Unmanned Ground Vehicle selection intended for military and rescue applications. Considering the properties of the described methods, the Saaty method was chosen for the intended analysis of the evaluation of the designed criteria and the determination of the weights of the groups of vehicle parameters. In addition, for the evaluation of available variants of the vehicle, the power function was applied using weights from the Saaty method for each parameter.