Ordnance

Bombing exercises 212100Z to 282059Z feb: a. in area between 26-00.00N 26-20.00N and 052-23.00E 052-57.00E

Persian Gulf · HYDROPAC 534/11

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2011-02-23 13:25Z

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) · CTF 50 232000Z JAN 11.. Issued 2011-02-17 12:04Z. 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
Persian Gulf. 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

Current notices and reporting history in the Persian Gulf →

Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2011-02-21 21:00Z2011-02-28 20:59Z—167 h 59

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

issued
2011-02-17 12:04Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2011-02-28 21:59Z
authority
CTF 50 232000Z JAN 11.
issued by
CTF
sea
Persian Gulf
position
28.405, 50.317
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

PERSIAN GULF.
ORDNANCE.
1. BOMBING EXERCISES 212100Z TO 282059Z FEB:
   A. IN AREA BETWEEN
      26-00.00N 26-20.00N AND 052-23.00E 052-57.00E.
   B. IN AREA BETWEEN
      27-20.00N 27-52.00N AND 050-25.00E 051-04.00E.
   C. IN AREA BETWEEN
      26-50.00N 27-10.00N AND 051-27.00E 052-00.00E.
   D. IN AREA BOUND BY
      29-09.00N 049-46.00E, 29-02.50N 049-46.00E,
      28-52.30N 049-43.53E, 28-30.50N 049-52.30E,
      28-17.10N 050-12.00E, 28-17.30N 050-42.50E.
   E. IN AREA BOUND BY
      28-16.50N 050-24.30E, 28-17.30N 050-43.15E,
      27-52.15N 051-03.15E, 27-51.33N 050-25.50E.
   F. IN AREA BETWEEN
      25-35.00N 25-55.00N AND 053-12.00E 053-46.00E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 282159Z FEB.

Reading this warning

Unexploded ordnance
Bombs, shells, mines or torpedoes found on the seabed or washed up, and the operations to remove or destroy them.
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.
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.
Area bound by
Introduces a list of positions that are the corners of an area — the polygon the warning applies to.
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 · ordnance operations

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

99
00
05
10
15
20
22

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

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
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

Worldwide in the collected sources

0 ordnance operations listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-03 13:41Z; source collection times vary.

Ordnance

Ordnance disposal, underwater detonations and unexploded ordnance. All current ordnance operations →

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.