Exercises

Gunnery exercises 0120Z to 0400Z daily 18 aug, 04 and 08 sep in area between 22-35N 22-55N and 119-25E 119-45E

Taiwan Strait · Taiwan-southwest Coast · Gunnery · HYDROPAC 2665/15

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2015-08-30 16:44Z

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 XI 595/15 131130Z AUG 15 - AUSCOAST 215/15 CX 131128Z AUG 15.. Issued 2015-08-13 13:36Z. 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
Taiwan Strait · Taiwan-southwest Coast · Gunnery. No usable coordinates were parsed; a location-based nearby search is unavailable. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
issued
2015-08-13 13:36Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2015-09-08 05:00Z
authority
NAVAREA XI 595/15 131130Z AUG 15 - AUSCOAST 215/15 CX 131128Z AUG 15.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

TAIWAN STRAIT.
TAIWAN-SOUTHWEST COAST.
GUNNERY.
DNC 23.
1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 0120Z TO 0400Z DAILY
   18 AUG, 04 AND 08 SEP IN AREA BETWEEN
   22-35N 22-55N AND 119-25E 119-45E.
2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 2645/15(75), AIDS RESTORED.
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 080500Z SEP 15.

Reading this warning

Gunnery and live firing
Naval or coastal guns firing into a sea area for practice, at stated times.
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.
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.
Cancellation reference
A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
HYDROPAC
The U.S. long-range warning series for the Pacific outside NAVAREA XII and for the Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf and adjoining seas.
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.

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Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm

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Worldwide in the collected sources

9 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-03 11:44Z; source collection times vary.

Exercises

Gunnery, firing and naval exercise areas. All current military exercises →

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.