What does it mean to be full of national flags on warships?

Full flag is a ceremony for naval vessels to fly national flags and military flags during the day, and the bow of the ship is connected with the bow of the ship through the mast. It is used to greet heads of state, government and senior military generals, celebrate major festivals and hold grand events.

Under normal circumstances, when ships welcome foreign warships, before the visiting formation leaves the dock, or when they arrive at the port of the visited country and park abroad, they will all hang full flags, and the order of full flags is also strictly regulated.

Full flags are hung on the flagpoles at the bow and stern of the ship respectively. The national flag is hung on the two masts, and the navy flag is hung on the flagpoles at the bow and stern. The destroyer is covered with flags, usually No.2, about 67. It depends on the actual length of the ship and the distance between the fore and aft masts. The single-masted ship is connected with the flagpoles at the bow and stern through the transverse truss of the mast, and the national flag is hung on the top of the mast. There are five specifications for signal flags, which are 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. 1 max, 5 min. A set of signal flags has 46 faces. Among them, there are 26 letter flags, 26 digital flags 10, 4 directional flags, 3 substitute flags, 26 executive flags 1, 26 commitment flags 1 and 26 international commitment flags 1. The number flag is a triangular flag, the letter flag includes a square flag and a dovetail flag, and the commitment flag and the international commitment flag are trapezoidal flags.

Square flag refers to rectangular flag, pointed flag refers to triangular flag, dovetail flag can be used as square flag, and trapezoidal flag is also called long flag and can be used as pointed flag. In order to hang the flag conveniently, there are three thin steel wires from the top of the flagpole at the bow to the top of the main mast, from the top of the main mast to the top of the back mast, and from the top of the back mast to the top of the flagpole at the stern. When the ship formation arrived in the visited country, when the first cable was tied to the cable post, the signalman quickly raised the flag along the thin steel wire with an electric pulley.

There are some special requirements for flying the whole flag: you can't fly a communication flag with the same pattern as the national flags of various countries, and you can't fly a single flag to indicate combat, anti-nuclear and anti-air strikes. One side of the national flag means nothing.

When Chinese visiting ships arrive in the visited country, the naval ships of the visited country usually fly full flags to welcome them, and the order of arrangement is the same as that of our army, but the difference is that foreign troops have one or two less flags than our army.