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I've been aboard several historic warships that have these types of markings to denote ships sunk or targets destroyed. Here is an example of such artwork on USS North Carolina.

Wouldn't be surprised if they isn't also a thing on tanks.

Seems like this isn't just an aircraft thing and I think it makes sense to have one article rather than multiple. Raitchison (talk) 18:05, 2 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I support it, but we need to find some decent sources in order to back it up, seen plenty of photos showing such a thing; but no sources to back it up. AnyOwl (talk) 13:46, 5 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Israeli aircraft have special markings for having participated in the Osirak raid (Operation Opera)... AnonMoos (talk) 08:24, 6 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"and Iranian Shahed drones"

Russia purchased 200 confirmed, possibly 300 Shahed drones together with the blueprints for them in early summer 2022. Since then, there has been not a single additional delivery of Shahed drones from Iran. And the Geran-2 which is based on the Shahed, isn't even externally identical! As Geran-2 has multiple minor aerodynamics improvements. The Geran-2 also uses a supercheapskate lowend stealth coating paint that Shahed has never had.

And its internals shares nothing with the Shahed, as they're based entirely on Russian parts(except for when they're using up old leftover spares or testing something new, both of which nowadays are rare). And Ukraine has attempted to attack the factory in Russia that produces the Geran-2 at least 3 times since it started serial production in Autumn-22, and yet you still pretend that the drones are Iranian Shahed? While the factory is literally producing hundreds of Gerans per day. By some sources, soon to reach a thousand per day...

That's just a painfully pathetic level of dishonesty and bad faith. 178.174.137.47 (talk) 01:15, 17 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have heard a few stories of one or more pilots in WWII who were crashing planes so often, that ground crews started painting their own flags as "kill marks" on the planes as a joke. Could anyone confirm and potentially add? Hal Nordmann (talk) 17:47, 17 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]