Patent ID: 6977593
Filing Date: 2005-12-20
Classification: F41A,F41G

Abstract:
1. A method for assuring safety during firing exercises with live ammunition by mobile skirmish participants practicing under combat conditions in an enclosed practice range that is monitored from a monitoring center, said method comprising the steps of: continuously determining instantaneous positions of the skirmish participants; transmitting the determined instantaneous positions to the monitoring center; in the monitoring center, calculating current, respective authorized firing sectors for the respective firing skirmish participants, taking into account a boundary of the practice range and the transmitted instantaneous positions and movement regions derived therefrom for the skirmish participants; individually transmitting the authorized firing sectors to the respective firing skirmish participants; and, at each firing skirmish participant, comparing a respective instantaneous weapon setting to the respective authorized firing sector, and providing a firing authorization for a respective firing sector only if the respective instantaneous weapon setting lies within the respective authorized firing sector.