Method for increasing the hitting probability of multi-barrel machine weapons

In a method for increasing the probability of hits from multi-barreled machine weapons, including effectuating an adjustment of the weapon barrels to achieve a predetermined spread for the hits from said weapons over target areas;

• the improvement comprising:
• associating a target area having its own middle hitting point location with each said weapon barrel;
• measuring a distance from a middle hitting point location for each barrel where an enclosing circle formed at said distance encloses one standard deviation of hits for each associated barrel, taking an average of said distances for the total number of barrels;
• orienting the hitting point locations of all of said weapon barrels at the same distance from each other and additionally at the same distance in a vertical and lateral spacing relative to the middle hitting point location of all of said weapon barrels;
• and then spreading the middle hitting point location of all of said weapon barrels by said average whereby the density of hits at a limited increasing deviation from the middle hitting point location of all of said weapon barrels remains at least substantially constant.