In military tactics, the kill zone, also known as killing zone, is an area entirely covered by direct and effective fire, an element of ambush within which an approaching enemy force is trapped and destroyed. The objective of the ambush force is to quickly kill or capture all enemy soldiers inside the kill zone. The trapped soldiers may respond by counterattacking.
The term is used in the analogous non-lethal sense in paintball and airsoft tactics.
In military tactics, the killzone, also known as killing zone, is an area entirely covered by direct and effective fire, an element of ambush within...
rifle Sasser, Charles W.; Roberts, Craig (1 July 2004). Crosshairs on the KillZone: American Combat Snipers, Vietnam through Operation Iraqi Freedom. New...
ability to maintain discipline and break out or maneuver away from a killzone is a hallmark of good troops and training in any ambush situation. Ambushes...
vanguard in a military operation, such as a suicidal assault through the killzone of a defended position, or the first men to climb a scaling ladder against...
launch multiple rockets in rapid succession, which, coupled with the large killzone of each warhead, can easily deliver saturation fire over a target area...
remote-control), and is directional, shooting a wide pattern of metal balls into a killzone. The Claymore can also be activated by a booby-trap tripwire firing system...
least one machine gun could fire straight down the killzone, enfilading it. Parallel to the killzone and tied into the 'L' was a second, flanking ambush...
One Shot, One Kill (1990 ed.). Pocket Books. ISBN 978-0-671-68219-4. Roberts, Craig; Sasser, Charles W. (2004). Crosshairs on the KillZone: American Combat...
A humanitarian corridor is a type of temporary demilitarized zone intended to allow the safe transit of humanitarian aid in, and/or refugees out of a crisis...
and the presidential limo to provide both a visual smoke screen in the killzone and to also act as an obscurant for IR and radar guided attacks.[citation...
Zone Fighter. Garogan X-Agents - They are a squadron of Garogas that were highly trained for any situation. They were the last weapons sent to kill Zone...
However, ambushes often intend to let the point element past the prime killzone in order to be maximally effective. Point position is often rotated periodically...
Catastrophe: Killzone Experiment Department). Killzone means the brain, the "killzone" of the Flare. Thomas is only five years old, and since his father has...
in the enemy's withdrawal, his platoon's safe passage from the ambush killzone, and his mortal wound. Corporal Tillman's personal courage, tactical expertise...
Carradine also worked as a producer and directed an episode. He starred in KillZone (1993), Dead Center (1993) for Steve Carver, Code... Death: Frontera Sur...
transport trucks. In the event of an ambush, their role was to drive into the killzone during the first few minutes of the attack, and saturate the attackers...
Season 10 took contestants to the frozen tundra of Alaska and an African KillZone. United States International Only visited the overseas territory of Montserrat...
two Marines caught in the killzone but saving the lead Lieutenant and the remaining 38 Marines who would have been killed by the launcher. As punishment...
its effective radius. The M67 frag grenade has an advertised effective killzone radius of 5 m (16 ft), while the casualty-inducing radius is approximately...