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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.
In weaponry, a kill box is a three-dimensional target area, defined to facilitate the integration of coordinated joint weapons fire. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The space is defined by an area reference system, but could follow terrain features, be located by grid coordinates or a radius from a center point.
This is a list of aircraft shootdowns, dogfights and other incidents during wars since World War II.An aircraft shootdown occurs when an aircraft is struck by a projectile launched or fired from another aircraft or from the ground (anti-aircraft warfare) which causes the targeted aircraft to lose its ability to continue flying normally, and then subsequently crashing into land or sea, often ...
The first ground fatalities from an aircraft crash occurred on 21 July 1919, when the Wingfoot Air Express crash took place. The airship crashed into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, Illinois, killing three of the five occupants of the aircraft, in addition to ten people on the ground. [1]
The pilot ejected safely, but the plane struck a vehicle carrying a family, killing a five-year-old girl and seriously injuring the remaining occupants. [16] September 10 – A North American T-28 Trojan crashed at the Börgönd Aviation Day airshow in Fejér County outside of Budapest, Hungary, killing both pilots and injuring 4 on the ground ...
On 4 June 2023, a Cessna 560 Citation V flew in the no-fly zone over Washington, D.C.The aircraft was intercepted by 2 F-16s. The aircraft later crashed in the Virginia mountains, killing all 4 on board. [243] 7 June. A helicopter of the Tunisian Armed Forces crashed in the Mediterranean Sea near Bizerte. All four crew members were killed in ...
Aeroflot Flight 6502 was a Soviet domestic passenger flight operated by a Tupolev Tu-134A from Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) to Grozny via Kuibyshev (now Samara), which crashed in Kuibyshev on 20 October 1986.
After a six-hour night march, Company H set up a hasty ambush; at 11:00 on 24 February, six PAVN soldiers walked into their kill zone, of which four were killed. On February 25, Company H continued to move eastward again engaging PAVN, resulting in the capture of one 122 mm field gun, two 40mm antiaircraft guns and the killing of eight PAVN ...