Missiles · military

Missile operations occur daily Wednesday through Saturday in the Aegean Sea until June 14 and September 16 through December 31.

Aegean Sea · HYDROLANT 237/26

What this record establishes

Listed in force

The latest collected record lists this warning as active. This is the status of the notice, not a live observation of conditions at the location.

Source and dates
NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt). Issued 2026-02-03 17:44Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:41Z; last seen in collection 2026-10-01 05:02Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered
Aegean 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.

Current notices and reporting history in the Aegean Sea →

issued
2026-02-03 17:44Z
status
Listed in force
self-cancels
2027-01-01 00:01Z
sea
Aegean Sea
position
35.935, 25.387
nearest port
Iraklion · 37 nm
source
NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z

Original warning text

AEGEAN SEA.
DNC 09.
1. MISSILE OPERATIONS 0530Z TO SUNSET DAILY EVERY
   WEDNESDAY THRU SATURDAY UNTIL 14 JUN AND
   16 SEB THRU 31 DEC IN AREAS:
   A. BOUND BY
      35-36.00N 024-07.00E, 36-18.00N 024-07.00E,
      36-18.00N 025-59.00E, 36-25.00N 026-12.00E,
      36-16.00N 026-40.00E, 35-36.00N 026-41.00E,
      35-31.00N 024-11.00E.
   B. WITHIN ONE MILE OF 35-32.00N 024-13.00E.
   C. WITHIN ONE MILE OF 35-36.33N 024-10.00E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 010001Z JAN 27.

Reading this warning

DNC (Digital Nautical Chart)
A reference to one of the regions of NGA's Digital Nautical Chart, used to tell the reader which charts a warning affects.
Missile firing
Missile tests or exercises, with the danger area and times during which missiles may be in flight or falling.
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.
Within a radius of
A circular area — every position within a stated distance of a point.
CANCEL THIS MSG
The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
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.

All warning terms →

Type

Military firing / hazardous-operations area — no matching space launch.

Conditions at the position · now

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MET Norway · NOAA WaveWatch III · HYCOM · GEBCO 2020 · model data at the centroid, not an observation

Collected reports in this area · missile & rocket hazards

49 within 180 nm since 2010 · 1 in the last 12 months · 1 listed in force now

10
15
20
25
26

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.

Month of issue in the collected archive

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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D

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

Worldwide in the collected sources

4 missile & rocket hazards listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-01 05:08Z; 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.