{"id":17607,"date":"2024-04-05T12:46:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T12:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/05\/denmark-closes-major-shipping-strait-over-faulty-missile-launcher\/"},"modified":"2024-04-05T12:46:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T12:46:25","slug":"denmark-closes-major-shipping-strait-over-faulty-missile-launcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/05\/denmark-closes-major-shipping-strait-over-faulty-missile-launcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark\u00a0closes\u00a0major shipping strait over faulty missile launcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Denmark\u00a0has\u00a0closed\u00a0one of the world\u2019s busiest shipping lanes over an activated but malfunctioning missile launcher on a Danish navy ship, the country\u2019s military said Thursday.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            The Niels Juel ship is stationed in\u00a0Denmark\u2019s Great Belt strait, the main maritime gateway to the Baltic Sea.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            The booster on a Harpoon missile on board the ship was activated during a mandatory test on Thursday, and the launcher cannot currently be deactivated, the Danish armed forces said in a statement, adding that specialists are on their way to solve the problem.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            \u201cUntil the booster is disabled, there is a risk that the missile could launch and fly several kilometers away,\u201d it said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            The danger area is estimated to be up to 5-7 kilometers (around 3-4 miles) from Naval Station Kors\u00f8r, at a height of approximately 1000 metres above the water in a southern direction, the statement outlined. The missile is not in the direction of the Great Belt Bridge.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            The air space in the area is also currently\u00a0closed, the military said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            \u201cThe Harpoon missile is a sharp missile, but it is only the booster that is activated in connection with the test, and there is therefore no danger that the missile can explode or reach further than the booster rocket can lift.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            The police and the Danish maritime authority have been informed, and ships in the direction of the danger zone have been notified and asked to wait until the problem has been resolved, the statement said.    <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denmark\u00a0has\u00a0closed\u00a0one of the world\u2019s busiest shipping lanes over an activated but malfunctioning missile launcher on a Danish navy ship, the country\u2019s military said Thursday. The Niels Juel ship is stationed in\u00a0Denmark\u2019s Great Belt strait, the main maritime gateway to the Baltic Sea. The booster on a Harpoon missile on board the ship was activated during <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}