Missiles · military

Missile firing from 00H00 to 11H00 UTC daily from 04 to 21 oct 2026

North Atlantic Ocean · NAVAREA II 343/26

What this record establishes

Listed in force

The latest collected record lists this warning as active. This is the status of the notice, not a live observation of conditions at the location.

Source and dates: SHOM NAVAREA II via PING (eastern North Atlantic, West Africa) · SHOM — Service hydrographique et océanographique de la Marine (NAVAREA II coordinator). Issued 2026-09-30 16:31Z. First collected 2026-09-30 16:42Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-30 19:57Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered: North Atlantic Ocean. The parsed report position is 45.555, -21.065. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Current notices and reporting history in the North Atlantic Ocean →

issued: 2026-09-30 16:31Z
status: Listed in force
authority: SHOM — Service hydrographique et océanographique de la Marine (NAVAREA II coordinator)
NAVAREA: NAVAREA II
issued by: SHOM
sea: North Atlantic Ocean
position: 45.555, -21.065
nearest port: Ponta Delgada · 512 nm
source: SHOM NAVAREA II via PING (eastern North Atlantic, West Africa) · first seen 2026-09-30 16:42Z

Original warning text

YEU, PAZENN, IROISE, ROMEO, CHARCOT, FARADAY, ALTAIR.
HAZARD OTHER.
FALLOUT HAZARD.
MISSILE FIRING
FROM 00H00 TO 11H00 UTC DAILY FROM 04 TO 21 OCT 2026.
AREA BOUNDED BY:
46-16.38N 023-35.45W
44-26.03N 022-49.63W
45-07.98N 019-44.15W
46-59.73N 019-44.15W
AREA BOUNDED BY:
47-39.00N 004-01.00W
47-48.72N 004-31.00W
47-44.70N 005-23.50W
47-16.47N 005-17.68W
47-21.72N 004-09.58W
AREA BOUNDED BY:
47-24.10N 009-51.67W
47-01.62N 009-47.35W
47-08.48N 008-24.55W
47-31.00N 008-28.28W
AREA BOUNDED BY:
47-16.47N 005-17.68W
47-44.70N 005-23.50W
47-31.00N 008-28.28W
47-08.48N 008-24.55W
AREA BOUNDED BY:
42-58.33N 034-54.68W
42-02.25N 034-21.48W
42-49.37N 031-48.72W
43-46.17N 032-20.02W
NAVIGATE WITH CAUTION

Reading this warning

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.

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Type

Military firing / hazardous-operations area — no matching space launch.

Conditions at the position · now

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MET Norway · NOAA WaveWatch III · HYCOM · GEBCO 2020 · model data at the centroid, not an observation

Collected reports in this area · missile & rocket hazards

4 within 180 nm since 2010 · 1 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

4 missile & rocket hazards listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-09-30 20:11Z; 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.