War flag

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A war flag (or military flag) is a variant of a national flag for use by the nation's military forces on land. (The nautical equivalent is a naval ensign.) Under this strict sense of the term, few nations currently have war flags, most preferring to use instead their state flag or standard national flag for this purpose.

[edit] Current war flags

[edit] Land use only ()

War Flag of Bolivia	War Flag of Brunei	War Flag of the People's Republic of China	War Flag of the Republic of China
War Flag of Hungary	Flag of the Japan Self-Defense Forces	War Flag of Portugal	War Flag of the United Kingdom (note 3:5 ratio)

[edit] War flags that are also naval ensigns ()

War Flag and Naval Ensign of Finland	War Flag and Naval Ensign of Peru	War Flag and Naval Ensign of Serbia (obverse)	War Flag and Naval Ensign of Serbia (reverse)
War Flag and Naval Ensign of Sweden

[edit] Other war flags

State and War Flag and State Ensign of Denmark	State and War Flag and State Ensign of Germany	State/War Flag and State/Naval Ensign of Iceland	State/War Flag and State/Naval Ensign of Norway
Flag of the Philippines at War	Bulgarian War flag	War Flag (regimental colour) of the Hellenic Army

[edit] Former war flags

Battle Flag of the Confederate States of America (1861–1865)	Cross of Burgundy Flag, Spain (1506-1843)	War Flag of the People's Republic of Congo (1970-1991)	War Flag of East Germany (1960–1990)
Reichskriegsflagge, the war flag for the German Wehrmacht and official flag of the Kriegsmarine	State and War Flag of the Kingdom of Greece (1863–1924 and 1935–1970)	War Flag of the Italian Social Republic (1943–1945)	War Flag of Prussia (1816)
War Flag of the Roman Republic of 1849	Flag of the Red Army	War Flag of the Imperial Japanese Army