Missiles

Gunnery and missile operations 182200Z to 231700Z oct in area bound by 44-25.0N 033-42.0E, 44-01.0N…

Black Sea · HYDROLANT 2546/21

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2021-10-23 18:00Z

This notice comes from the historical archive. Its archived status does not establish when or how the reported situation ended.

Source and dates
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · NAVAREA III 754/21 161218Z OCT 21.. Issued 2021-10-16 12:52Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:38Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-17 15:46Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered
Black 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 Black Sea →

Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2021-10-18 22:00Z2021-10-23 17:00Z—115 h

Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.

issued
2021-10-16 12:52Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2021-10-23 18:00Z
authority
NAVAREA III 754/21 161218Z OCT 21.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA III · named as the source of this relay
sea
Black Sea
position
43.719, 32.164
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

BLACK SEA.
UKRAINE.
DNC 10.
1. GUNNERY AND MISSILE OPERATIONS 182200Z TO
   231700Z OCT IN AREA BOUND BY
   44-25.0N 033-42.0E, 44-01.0N 033-37.0E,
   43-19.5N 033-00.0E, 42-57.0N 031-38.0E,
   43-02.0N 031-10.0E, 42-54.0N 030-50.0E,
   43-15.5N 030-21.0E, 44-20.0N 031-56.5E,
   44-34.2N 033-08.5E, 44-31.0N 033-28.5E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 231800Z OCT 21.

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.
Gunnery and live firing
Naval or coastal guns firing into a sea area for practice, at stated times.
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.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · missile & rocket hazards

309 within 180 nm since 1999 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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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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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 14:01Z; source collection times vary.

Missiles

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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.