Selection of light machine gun in military defence systems via using anlytic hierarchy process and analytic network process

The light machine gun is one of the important fire support weapon for infantrytroops. Light machine guns using at the present are completing their lifetimeand they have become products of old-fashioned technology. Because of thesereasons, changing the machine guns with the new ones outstands as a necessity.While technological advancements improve the quality of productions, they alsohelp to increase the differentation of productions. This differentation increasesthe number of alternatives in available products for organizations who areinterested in these products. At the same time the differentation complicates theproblem of a decision making. Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM)methods are used for solving these problems. In this study, the problem ofselection the best light machine gun in military defence systems was tried tosolve with Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Analytic Network Process(ANP). The criteria concerning the light machine guns were defined byspecialist?s opinions, necessary questionnaires are prepared and applied and theresults were obtained via using Super Decision 1.6.0 software. Then the resultsobtained by AHP and ANP were compared and evaluated.