Gunnery and missile operations 0500Z to 1000Z daily 05 and 06 mar in area bound by 25-11N 066-04E, 24-35N…
Arabian Sea · HYDROPAC 796/18
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2018-03-03 14:48Z
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 54/18 281500Z FEB 18.. Issued 2018-02-28 17:02Z. 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
- Gunnery and missile operations 0500Z to 1000Z daily 05 and 06 mar in area bound by 25-06N 066-17E, 24-35N…later cancellation notice
These messages are connected by recorded cancellation references. The links establish relationships between notices; they do not by themselves confirm a single object, a continuous track, or recovery.
- HYDROPAC 796/18 · this notice2018-02-28 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 836/182018-03-03 · Archived notice
- issued
- 2018-02-28 17:02Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2018-03-06 11:00Z
- authority
- NAVAREA IX 54/18 281500Z FEB 18.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IX · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Arabian Sea
- position
- 23.832, 66.054
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
ARABIAN SEA. PAKISTAN. DNC 03. 1. GUNNERY AND MISSILE OPERATIONS 0500Z TO 1000Z DAILY 05 AND 06 MAR IN AREA BOUND BY 25-11N 066-04E, 24-35N 065-34E, 23-00N 065-11E, 23-00N 067-02E, 24-35N 066-24E, 25-07N 066-17E. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 061100Z MAR 18.
Reading this warning
- 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.
- Gunnery and live firing
- Naval or coastal guns firing into a sea area for practice, at stated times.
- Missile firing
- Missile tests or exercises, with the danger area and times during which missiles may be in flight or falling.
- 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
38 within 180 nm since 2010 · 1 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 and gunnery operations 231900Z to 251300Z sep in area bound by 25-28.00N 063-18.00E, 25-28.00N…2026-09-23
- Gunnery and missile operations 0300Z to 1500Z daily 16 thru 20 feb in area bound by 25-23.00N 063-33.00E,…2024-02-15
- Hazardous operations, rocket launching 0300Z to 0500Z daily 15 thru 17, 0300Z to 0900Z daily 18 and 19 and…2023-11-14
- 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
- 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 and gunnery operations 0400Z to 1200Z daily 22 thru 27 apr in area bound by 25-13N 062-30E, 25-22N…2020-04-20
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
- Hazardous operations 0300Z to 1300Z daily 26 aug, 02, 09, 16, 23 and 30 sep in area bound by 24-50.26N…Exercises · 61.2 nm
- Dangerous wreck in vicinity 23-51.80N 067-20.90EWrecks · 71.1 nm
- Fairway buoy 24-43.14N 066-55.86E missingNav aids · 71.7 nm
- Wreck buoy 24-46.45N 066-57.09E missingWrecks · 74.9 nm
- Hazardous operations 0300Z to 1200Z daily 25 and 26 sep in area bound by 25-12.00N 064-27.83E, 25-12.00N…Exercises · 109.8 nm
- Ormara lighthouse 25-11.10N 064-41.10E unlitNav aids · 110.4 nm
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.