# Mobility kill

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{{Short description|Military tactic and the state of an armoured vehicle being immobilised}}
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[[Image:Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-022-2948-05,_Russland,_Panzer_VI_(Tiger_I),_Kettenschaden.jpg|thumb|[Tiger tank](/source/Tiger_I) disabled by an [anti-tank mine](/source/anti-tank_mine) during the [Battle of Kursk](/source/Battle_of_Kursk) seen under repair, 1943]]

[[Image:Tank disabled by a land mine.jpg|thumb|[M4 Sherman](/source/M4_Sherman) disabled by an [anti-tank mine](/source/anti-tank_mine) and five hits from Japanese artillery during the [Battle of Iwo Jima](/source/Battle_of_Iwo_Jima), 1945]]

A '''mobility kill''' (also abbreviated as '''M-kill''') in [armoured warfare](/source/armoured_warfare) is a vehicle that is immobilised due to damage or [anti-tank obstacles](/source/anti-tank_obstacles), or the act of immobilising such a target through damage or anti-tank obstacles. This is often caused by the vehicle triggering an [anti-tank mine](/source/anti-tank_mine) with its tracks or wheels. However, it may also result from direct hits by [rocket propelled grenade](/source/rocket_propelled_grenade)s,  [anti-tank missile](/source/anti-tank_missile)s, and other direct and indirect fire rounds, or though anti-tank obstacles like [dragons teeth](/source/Dragon's_teeth_(fortification)), [anti-tank ditch](/source/anti-tank_ditch)es, [Czech hedgehog](/source/Czech_hedgehog)s, and other such obstacles.{{sfn|Mizokami|2023}}

[Tank](/source/Tank)s and other [armoured fighting vehicle](/source/armoured_fighting_vehicle)s can be immobilised by damage to their engines, tracks, or running gears, or by getting stuck on, or in, anti-tank obstacles. Because of the mobile nature of modern warfare, such a vehicle is often effectively useless and particularly vulnerable on the battlefield, though it may later be salvaged for spares, or repaired or unstuck and brought back into action. In rare cases, tanks that have suffered mobility kills have continued to engage enemy targets with their main gun and secondary armaments, even though they are immobile. However, in an active battlefield situation, any armoured fighting vehicles which have suffered mobility kills are stationary targets for ground-attack planes armed with ordnance such as rockets or [cluster bomb](/source/cluster_bomb)s. Alternatively they may be subject to artillery bombardment or a [drone attack](/source/First-person_view_(radio_control)). Enemy ground troops may attack stranded vehicles with additional [ATGM](/source/ATGM)s or [RPG](/source/rocket_propelled_grenade)s. If the vehicle is later destroyed after becoming a mobility kill, it will instead be classed as a [catastrophic kill](/source/catastrophic_kill) (also abbreviated as K-Kill).{{sfn|Mizokami|2023}}

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== References ==

*{{cite web |last=Mizokami |first=Kyle |date=5 September 2023 |title=How to Kill Tanks |url=https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a43700635/how-to-kill-tanks/ |website=Popular Mechanics |access-date=4 November 2025}}

== See also ==

* Firepower kill
* Mission kill
* [Catastrophic kill](/source/Catastrophic_kill) (K-Kill)

Category:Armoured warfare
Category:Military terminology

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