The Danish Armed Forces reported this Thursday the short-term closure of site visitors by means of the Great Belt canal, one of the nation’s important maritime routes, because of a technical incident on a frigate that activated the missile launch system with none projectile being ejected, and now it can’t be deactivated.
The frigate in query, the ‘Niels Juel’, is moored in the port of Korsor. A group of specialists has traveled to the boat to attempt to resolve the downside, as highlighted by the Danish Armed Forces in a assertion.
“Until the thruster is deactivated, there’s a threat that the missile might be launched and fly a number of kilometers away“added the army authorities, who element that there isn’t any hazard that the projectile in query might explode because of the traits of the affected propellant.
The incident impacts an space of between 5 and 7 kilometers from the port of Korsor and at a peak of as much as a thousand meters. Therefore, the Danish authorities have additionally closed the airspace on this particular space.
This incident happens on the similar day that the Government of Denmark has ordered the dismissal of the chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Flemming Lentfer, alleging a loss of belief, in retaliation for not notifying the Ministry of Defense of a downside in the operation of the frigate despatched for the army mission in the Red Sea.
