Hazardous operations 0430Z to 0800Z daily 24 and 25 jan in area bound by 25-32.66N 066-30.05E, 25-18.00N…
Arabian Sea · HYDROPAC 227/17
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2017-01-25 09:00Z
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 IX 13/17 201500Z JAN 17.. Issued 2017-01-20 15:10Z. 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
- Arabian 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.
Related notices and cancellation links
These reports were linked by category and sea, with positions within 30 nautical miles and issue dates within 30 days of another report's recorded in-force span. Links can extend through other members, so the full group can cover a larger area or period. Proximity does not confirm that they describe one incident.
- HYDROPAC 227/17 · this notice2017-01-20 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 278/172017-01-24 · Archived notice
- issued
- 2017-01-20 15:10Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2017-01-25 09:00Z
- authority
- NAVAREA IX 13/17 201500Z JAN 17.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IX · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Arabian Sea
- position
- 21.235, 63.928
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
ARABIAN SEA. PAKISTAN. MISSILES. DNC 03, DNC 10. 1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 0430Z TO 0800Z DAILY 24 AND 25 JAN IN AREA BOUND BY 25-32.66N 066-30.05E, 25-18.00N 066-55.05E, 16-52.45N 061-18.59E, 17-07.07N 060-54.84E. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 250900Z JAN 17.
Reading this warning
- Missile firing
- Missile tests or exercises, with the danger area and times during which missiles may be in flight or falling.
- 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.
- Hazardous operations
- NGA's heading for activities that make an area dangerous — most often rocket launches, space debris and weapons firings, and some open-ended danger areas.
- 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.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · missile & rocket hazards
16 within 180 nm since 2010 · 0 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 0430Z to 0730Z daily 14 and 15 may in area bound by 25-50.83N 068-14.00E, 25-34.62N…2024-05-09
- Missile operations 0500Z to 0900Z daily 17 and 18 oct in area bound by 25-18.74N 065-58.80E, 25-08.94N…2023-10-16
- Missile operations 0515Z to 0815Z daily 02 thru 06 jan in area bound by 25-16.80N 067-11.21E, 25-43.51N…2023-01-02
- Gunnery and missile operations 0300Z to 1300Z daily 26 thru 31 oct in area bound by 24-54.00N 066-15.00E,…2022-10-25
- Missile operations 0245Z to 0530Z daily 12 thru 16 apr in area bound by 25-43.97N 066-19.59E, 25-17.21N…2022-04-10
- Missile and gunnery operations 0400Z to 1200Z daily 29 feb thru 03 mar in area bound by 24-56N 066-15E,…2020-02-25
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
3 missile & rocket hazards listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-30 09:07Z; 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.