NATO Signal Flags

Last modified: 2007-05-27 by phil nelson
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These flags drawn them to correspond to US Navy specifications; other NATO navies use slightly different proportions in some cases.

NATO also assigns different meanings to the letter flags and combinations of letter flags and numeral flags and pennants than does the ICS, but those meanings are classified.
Joe McMillan, 8 August 2003

Unless otherwise noted, all images on this page are by Joe McMillan

NATO Numeral Flags

One	Two	Three	Four	Five
Six	Seven	Eight	Nine	Zero

Special NATO Signals

Code or Answering (Ans)	Corpen	Designation (Desig)	Division (Div)
Emergency (Emerg)	Formation (Form)	Interrogative (Inter)	Negative (Negat)
Port	Preparative (Prep)	Screen	Speed
Station (Sta)	Starboard (Stbd)	Subdivision (Subdiv)	Turn