Patent ID: 8009060

Claim:
A system for monitoring a munition comprising: a sensor means, associated with a given munition, for detecting status information regarding the environment proximate to the munition that corresponds to at least mechanical and ambient medium attributes of said environment, each said attribute being detected in temporal intervals; means for wirelessly communicating the detected temporal status information for each attribute from the sensor means to a remote device at a location remote from the munition, wherein the sensor means comprises at least a chemical sensor; and means for (i) assessing operability of the munition by comparing the detected status information with a first range of at least one of mechanical and environmental conditions regarding operability of the munition, and (ii) assessing whether the detected attributes comply with predetermined warranty provisions including a probability of munition performance warranted by a manufacturer of the munition based on a second range of at least one of mechanical and environmental conditions defined in the manufacturer's warranty in which the manufacturer warrants operability of the munition provided that the munition is at least one of maintained, stored and operated in accordance with the second range of conditions, wherein the second range of conditions warranted by the manufacturer are a subset of the first range of conditions regarding operability of the munition such that the second range of conditions is narrower than the first range of conditions by having at least one endpoint different than a corresponding endpoint of the first range of conditions.