text: Fire Support Coordination Measures
  Figure B-4. Gridded reference graphic example
  KILL BOX
  B-16. Description. A kill box is a three-dimensional permissive fire support coordination measure with an
  associated airspace coordinating measure used to facilitate the integration of fires (JP 3-09). A kill box is a
  coordination measure, not a mission.
  B-17. Purpose. The kill box reduces execution coordination because all requirements for target engagement
  in the target area (to include, guidance, clearance of fires, timing, and deconfliction from other assets) are
  accomplished while planning and coordinating the kill box in support of approved targets on a component’s
  target nomination list or joint integrated prioritized target list.
  * Kill boxes are established to support interdiction efforts as an outcome of the JFC’s joint targeting
  process.
  * Kill boxes allow attacks against surface targets without further coordination with the AO
  commander, and without the requirement for terminal attack control.
  * When use of air-to-surface, subsurface, and surface-to-surface indirect fires are desired, the kill
  box will have ACMs that provide airspace in which participating aircraft are deconflicted from
  friendly surface fires. These ACMs also prevent nonparticipating aircraft and maneuver forces
  from entering kill boxes. The goal of excluding nonparticipating forces is to reduce the
  coordination required to engage targets while preventing friendly fire.
  B-18. Missions. Specific missions applicable to this publication are AI.
  Note. All users must understand that kill boxes are not part of a reference system but are
  specialized CMs consisting of FSCMs with an associated ACM. The Global Area Reference
  System (GARS) naming and numbering conventions are used to facilitate joint fires integration.