Patent ID: 7293493

Claim:
A method of building a machine-controlled sight-weapon combination, said method comprising: providing at least one training-adjustable base module containing at least a sight training motor, control electronics and an elevation motor; installing at least one pair of vertically-protruding, mutually opposed weapon consoles or weapon lifting arms upon said at least one training-adjustable base module; installing a pair of vertically-protruding, mutually opposed sensor housing consoles or sensor housing lifting arms upon said at least one training-adjustable base module; installing a weapon between said at least one pair of vertically-protruding, mutually opposed weapon consoles or weapon lifting arms, and relative to a vehicle or vessel for which the sight-weapon combination is intended, so as to form at least one weapon module; and installing a sensor housing between said at least one pair of either consoles or lifting arms, and relative to said vehicle or vessel, so as to form a sensor housing module, wherein said sensor housing contains sight sensors which control said weapon and said sensor housing in parallel, and wherein said weapon module and said sensor housing module can be configured either as a combined sight-weapon unit upon a same base module of said at least one training-adjustable base module or as separate units upon separate base modules of said at least one training-adjustable base module.