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Flag at sea of the General Delegate for Ordnance - Image by Željko Heimer, 13 November 2001
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At sea
According to Album des Pavillons [pay00], the flag of the General Delegate for Ordnance (Délégué Général pour l'Armement) at sea is a square white flag with a tricolor flag in canton and a blue emblem in lower fly. The emblem consists of an arrowhead pointing upwards and surrounded by a stylized wreath.
Željko Heimer, 13 November 2001
Car flag
Concerning the car flag, a new regulation was published in 2024: Instruction n° 849/ARM/SGA/DMCA/SHD/DHS/DSD relative à la symbolique militaire dans les armées et la gendarmerie nationale du 10 avril 2024.
Source: Official bulletin of the Ministry of Defense. This new regulation gives specifics about rank flags used on cars or in planes
According to the new regulation, these pennants (rank flags) are attached to the left front wing by a 45cm-high removable pole, topped with an 8cm-high golden spearhead, they are 35 x 40cm in size and in the national colors. The obverse and reverse bear the same motifs. The aircraft pennants are identical, but are only displayed during taxiing or when stationary. They are not used on rotary-wing aircraft.
The Director General of Ordnance has a pennant without fringe, with in its blue part the insignia of rank of the titular embroidered in white and, in its white part the distinguishing mark (25 cm high) embroidered in blue: a spearhead for the Director General of Ordnance.
Tricolor cravat with golden fringe (braids of 3 cm) fixed under the finial."
Corentin Chamboredon and Olivier Touzeau, 12 May & 14 July 2025
The Decision on Car Flags, 2 September 1963, stated that the Ministerial Delegate for Armaments (General Delegate for Ordnance) was entitled to have a car pennant.
The pennants described in the 1963 regulation (Décision relative aux fanions de voiture, 2 September 1963) are tricolor, in the national colors, with in the white part the symbol of the army of belonging and in the blue part the distinctive signs of the rank of the holder.
Olivier Touzeau, 29 August 2025