When a ship is registered in for example Spain, it is called Spanish flagged. You know like all ships still sail, besides them most not having sails.
Also in the Strait of Hormuz using a telescope is probably what you actually want to do. There is the Automatic Identification System, which works using radio and among other things includes the ships registration. However the Strait of Hormuz currently has a lot of electronic warfare going on, which makes this unreliable. Also it is allowed to not use it or fake some data, if you are in dangerous waters, which is certainly the case in the Strait. So using a telescope is actually what you would do and then check the ships name and flag in the countries registration database.
This isn’t the 15th century. They aren’t looking though a telescope and looking at flags to figure this shit out.
When a ship is registered in for example Spain, it is called Spanish flagged. You know like all ships still sail, besides them most not having sails.
Also in the Strait of Hormuz using a telescope is probably what you actually want to do. There is the Automatic Identification System, which works using radio and among other things includes the ships registration. However the Strait of Hormuz currently has a lot of electronic warfare going on, which makes this unreliable. Also it is allowed to not use it or fake some data, if you are in dangerous waters, which is certainly the case in the Strait. So using a telescope is actually what you would do and then check the ships name and flag in the countries registration database.
That’s probably true! However the telescope was not yet invented in the 15th century