Patent ID: 7698849

Claim:
A barrel assembly including: a barrel with a plurality of projectiles aligned nose to tail for sequential firing, each projectile being associated with a propellant charge, a primer that ignites the propellant charge, and an ignition system triggerable to ignite the primer and thereby fire the projectiles; a plurality of firing systems, each firing system being for a respective projectile and including (i) a sensor for determining whether the respective projectile has successfully fired, and (ii) an induction coil coupled to the sensor, wherein the sensor is configured for detecting the respective projectile using a signal received from the coil; and a firing controller coupled to each of the firing systems, the firing controller being for operating the firing systems to thereby: determine whether or not a respective projectile is to be fired; and selectively trigger respective ones of the ignition systems to thereby fire associated ones of the respective projectiles.