Latest news is that it might not be. It is currently anchored on the border between Danish territorial waters and the economic exclusion zone with VesselFinder showing it a few meters outside territorial waters. This is important as Denmark isn’t legally allowed to do anything if they aren’t in territorial waters without approval from China.
Officially the Danish navy has denied to comment on whether they have boarded (you can’t really detain a ship at sea), so we’ll probably have to wait to figure out what the situation is, but it is possible to see P525 cruising around the ship. Whatever the case is the next couple of days will for sure be interesting.
The Hovsa missile was a Harpoon missile that was accidentally fired by the frigate Peder Skram at noon on September 6, 1982 from the southern part of the Kattegat.
After about 34 kilometers of flight at low altitude, the missile weighing more than 500 kg with an explosive charge of more than 200 kg hit some trees in a cottage area near Lumsås, Sønderstrand in northwest Zealand. At 11:32, the missile exploded at a height of approximately five meters at the boundary between the two holiday homes, Pilelunden 2 and Søndre Strandvej 3. Beforehand, it had torn several power lines. No one was injured in the accident, but four holiday homes were totally damaged, while 130 others suffered damage to a greater or lesser extent.
Latest news is that it might not be. It is currently anchored on the border between Danish territorial waters and the economic exclusion zone with VesselFinder showing it a few meters outside territorial waters. This is important as Denmark isn’t legally allowed to do anything if they aren’t in territorial waters without approval from China.
Officially the Danish navy has denied to comment on whether they have boarded (you can’t really detain a ship at sea), so we’ll probably have to wait to figure out what the situation is, but it is possible to see P525 cruising around the ship. Whatever the case is the next couple of days will for sure be interesting.
Denmark: Well we promise it wasn’t we who sunk the vessel!
Chine: What sunken vessel?
Denmark: Oh shit, waitaminute … BOOM
Business as usual, we had an “oopsie missile” that destroyed a small neighbourhood of vacation homes once: https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hovsa-missilet
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