{"id":17650,"date":"2024-04-04T21:21:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T18:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=17650"},"modified":"2024-04-04T21:21:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T18:21:24","slug":"faulty-missile-launcher-closes-busy-danish-sea-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/04\/faulty-missile-launcher-closes-busy-danish-sea-lane\/","title":{"rendered":"Faulty Missile Launcher Closes Busy Danish Sea Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An activated but faulty missile launcher on a Danish navy vessel triggered a closure of airspace and shipping traffic in the Great Belt strait on Thursday, the Danish armed forces said.<\/p>\n<p>Denmark\u2019s National Maritime Authority had earlier warned ships not to sail through the Great Belt strait, one of the world\u2019s busiest sea lanes and the main maritime access to the Baltic Sea, due to the risk of \u201cfalling missile fragments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem occurred during a mandatory test where the missile launcher is activated and cannot be deactivated,\u201d the military said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil the missile launcher is deactivated, there is a risk that the missile can fire and fly a few kilometers away,\u201d the military added.<\/p>\n<p>A naval exercise was ongoing in the area, a navigational warning showed.<\/p>\n<p>The warning covered an area some four kilometers (2.5 miles) south of the Great Belt bridge, which crosses the strait.<br \/>\nThe bridge remained open to traffic, its operator said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An activated but faulty missile launcher on a Danish navy vessel triggered a closure of airspace and shipping traffic in the Great Belt strait on Thursday, the Danish armed forces said. Denmark\u2019s National Maritime Authority had earlier warned ships not to sail through the Great Belt strait, one of the world\u2019s busiest sea lanes and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17670,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17650\/revisions\/17670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}