Patent ID: 7207252

Claim:
A cook-off-warning system for a weapon having a barrel from which ammunition is fired, comprising: a communication mechanism to communicate with a gun control system of the weapon, the communication mechanism to receive from the gun control system indication that the ammunition did not properly fire; one or more modeling mechanisms to predict a first barrel temperature next to a first energetic of the ammunition and a second barrel temperature next to a second energetic of the ammunition, based on a number of rounds fired from the weapon and subsequent periods of cooling down of the weapon between the rounds fired; one or more tables storing a plurality of cook-off times for the first energetic organized by barrel temperature and type of the first energetic, and storing a plurality of cook-off times for the second energetic organized by barrel temperature and type of the second energetic; and, a mechanism to look up a first cook-off time of the first energetic within the tables based on the type of the first energetic and the first barrel temperature next to the first energetic and to look up a second cook-off time of the second energetic within the tables based on the type of the second energetic and the second barrel temperature next to the second energetic.