Russia conducts missile operations in the Barents Sea on 4 and 5 October within a defined area.
Barentsz Sea · HYDROARC 271/26
What this record establishes
Cancelled notice · 2026-09-30 15:00Z
This notice disappeared from the issuing source's in-force list. No explicit recovery or all-clear is established by that removal.
- Source and dates
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt). Issued 2026-09-29 18:27Z. First collected 2026-09-30 16:02Z; last seen in collection 2026-10-01 01:32Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- Barentsz Sea. The map shows an area described by the warning; the listed coordinate is its representative center. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Activity windows · 2 in this warning
| opens (UTC) | closes (UTC) | local | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-04 06:00Z | 2026-10-04 14:00Z | — | 8 h |
| 2026-10-05 04:00Z | 2026-10-05 11:30Z | — | 7 h 30 |
Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.
- issued
- 2026-09-29 18:27Z
- status
- Cancelled notice
- self-cancels
- 2026-10-05 12:30Z
- sea
- Barentsz Sea
- position
- 69.796, 33.297
- source
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-09-30 16:02Z
Original warning text
BARENTS SEA. RUSSIA. 1. MISSILE OPERATIONS 040600Z TO 041400Z AND 050400Z TO 051130Z OCT IN AREA BOUND BY 69-58.00N 032-42.00E, 69-58.00N 033-49.50E, 69-36.50N 033-49.50E, 69-36.50N 032-59.50E, 69-48.00N 032-42.00E. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 051230Z OCT 26.
Reading this warning
- Missile firing
- Missile tests or exercises, with the danger area and times during which missiles may be in flight or falling.
- Date-time group (DTG)
- A compact UTC timestamp — day, hour and minute followed by Z — such as 201500Z for the 20th at 15:00 UTC.
- Area bound by
- Introduces a list of positions that are the corners of an area — the polygon the warning applies to.
- Position (degrees and minutes)
- How warnings write positions: degrees, a hyphen, then minutes, with N/S and E/W — 49-40.8N 003-43.8W.
- CANCEL THIS MSG
- The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
Collected reports in this area · missile & rocket hazards
454 within 180 nm since 2010 · 8 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now
Counts include repeat notices about the same situation. NGA archive coverage ends 2024-05; live collection began 2026-08-17. The period between them is incomplete. An empty year is not evidence that no hazards occurred.
- Missile operations 051200Z to 051500Z and 0400Z to 1500Z daily 06 and 07 oct in area bound by 70-07.00N…2026-09-29
- Missile operations 0400Z to 1500Z daily 25 and 26 sep in area bound by 70-18.00N 036-10.00E, 69-53.00N…2026-09-20
- Missile operations 2100Z to 1800Z daily 21 thru 24 sep in area bound by 72-52.25N 034-14.50E, 72-27.17N…2026-09-16
- Missile operations 0200Z to 1500Z daily 11 thru 13 sep in area bound by 69-53.00N 032-57.00E, 70-07.00N…2026-09-09
- Missile and gunnery operations 0500Z to 1900Z daily 05 thru 10 sep in areas bound by: a. 69-43.00N…2026-09-02
- Hazardous operations, rocket launching 132100Z to 132359Z, 0001Z to 1800Z and 2100Z to 2359Z daily 14 thru…2026-08-12
Month of issue in the collected archive
All available years combined. Uneven collection and repeat bulletins affect these counts; this chart does not measure the seasonality or probability of incidents.
Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm
No other collected notice is currently listed in force within this radius. This does not establish safe conditions.
Worldwide in the collected sources
4 missile & rocket hazards listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 01:44Z; source collection times vary.
Missiles
Missile firings, rocket launches and space debris re-entry areas. All current missile & rocket hazards →
Not for navigation. This is a re-rendering of an official navigational warning for awareness; mariners must use official NAVAREA broadcasts and their national MSI service.