Exercises

India warns of hazardous operations in the Andaman Sea on 25 September from 1000 to 1230 UTC within a defined area.

Andaman or Burma Sea · HYDROPAC 2762/26

What this record establishes

Cancelled notice · 2026-09-24 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 2026-09-23 15:42Z. First collected 2026-09-24 16:32Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-25 01:17Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered
Andaman or Burma 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 Andaman or Burma Sea →

Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2026-09-25 10:00Z2026-09-25 12:30Z—2 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
2026-09-23 15:42Z
status
Cancelled notice
self-cancels
2026-09-25 13:30Z
sea
Andaman or Burma Sea
position
11.624, 92.820
source
NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-09-24 16:32Z

Original warning text

ANDAMAN SEA.
INDIA.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 251000Z TO 251230Z SEP
   IN AREA BOUND BY
   11-39.70N 092-46.30E, 11-40.60N 092-47.00E,
   11-38.70N 092-53.10E, 11-32.90N 092-48.30E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 251330Z SEP 26.

Reading this warning

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.
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 · military exercises

404 within 180 nm since 2002 · 18 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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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
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A
M
J
J
A
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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

No other collected notice is currently listed in force within this radius. This does not establish safe conditions.

Worldwide in the collected sources

17 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-09-25 01:17Z; 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.