AOP 15 is intitled "Guidance on the assessment of the safety and suitability for service of non-nuclear munitions for NATO armed forces". It scope is mainly related to safety, i-e fortuitous stimuli.

Some fires are fortuitous, and related risks are thoroughly assessed in AOP 15.

However, the major parts of stimuli considered in IMs are deliberate ones:

Theses types of stimuli are normally treated by a survivability methodology or a wargame approach.

In AOP 15, these latter stimuli can be analysed ; induced risks can be assessed.

But treatment is not adapted: survivability is based on complementary actions:

• not to be detected,

• not to be hit if detected,

• not to be killed if hit

IM is an intrinsic answer, but only of the third action type.