Patent ID: 8225999

Claim:
A method for controlling the cadence of an automatic weapon, the method comprising the steps of: (a) providing an automatic weapon that includes a weapon barrel, wherein the automatic weapon has a predefined cadence that would lead to resonant oscillating of the weapon barrel of the automatic weapon; (b) providing a fire control computer operably connected to trigger shots from the automatic weapon at an actual cadence shot by shot; (c) using the fire control computer to modify the actual cadence of the automatic weapon from shot to shot so that an actual time interval between successively triggered shots is alternately shorter and longer than a calculated constant time interval between individual triggered shots, wherein the calculated constant time interval is calculated based on the predefined cadence and corresponds to a constant interval of time required between successive shots to fire the automatic weapon at the predefined cadence; and (d) due to modifying the actual cadence of the automatic weapon using the fire control computer, firing the automatic weapon at an average cadence that is an average over time of modified actual cadences, wherein the average cadence is equal to the predefined cadence while avoiding resonant oscillating of the weapon barrel.