Exercises

Hazardous operations occur in the Arabian Sea off Pakistan from 0300Z to 1900Z daily on selected dates in October within four defined areas.

Arabian Sea · HYDROPAC 2822/26

What this record establishes

Cancelled notice · 2026-09-29 13:30Z

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 2026-09-29 11:57Z. First collected 2026-09-29 16:17Z; last seen in collection 2026-10-01 15:17Z. 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.

Current notices and reporting history in the Arabian Sea →

issued: 2026-09-29 11:57Z
status: Cancelled notice
self-cancels: 2026-10-30 20:00Z
sea: Arabian Sea
position: 24.475, 62.501
source: NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-09-29 16:17Z

Original warning text

ARABIAN SEA.
PAKISTAN.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 0300Z TO 1900Z DAILY
   01 AND 02, 05 THRU 09, 12 THRU 16, 19 THRU 23
   AND 26 THRU 30 OCT IN AREAS BOUND BY:
   A. 24-24.30N 066-42.00E, 24-19.00N 066-58.00E,
      24-00.00N 066-39.00E, 24-11.00N 066-27.00E.
   B. 24-36.02N 062-30.03E, 24-36.02N 063-15.03E,
      24-21.02N 063-15.03E, 24-21.02N 062-30.03E.
   C. 24-36.02N 061-45.03E, 24-36.02N 062-30.03E,
      24-21.02N 062-30.03E, 24-21.02N 061-45.03E.
   D. 24-22.00N 066-27.00E, 24-16.30N 066-33.00E,
      24-10.30N 066-27.00E, 24-16.18N 066-20.50E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 302000Z OCT 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.
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.

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Collected reports in this area · military exercises

198 within 180 nm since 2004 · 9 in the last 12 months · 1 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.

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

28 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-01 15:22Z; 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.