Ukraine license plate: Military
Issued today 2004 to today. Military plates for car, van, truck, bus, trailer, and machine, issued by Міністерство внутрішніх справ України / Головний сервісний центр МВС (ГСЦ МВС). One of 37 Ukraine license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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9999 L9, for example4820 W9(L is any letter, 9 any digit)Deliberately opaque: the armed forces determine the serial's information content themselves, no region is encoded, and the letter may come from anywhere in the Ukrainian alphabet, the black plate is the one Ukrainian serial with no public decode.
The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.
- Years issued
- 2004 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Military: armed-forces registration systems. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, trailer, and machine.
- Colours
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Characters
#FFFFFFBackground#000000 - Size
- 520 × 112 mm · every country's size
- About this plate
- ARMED FORCES OF UKRAINE and the military counter-intelligence organs of the SBU.
- About the format
- Додаток 2 Таблиця 4 gives type 9 five digits and one letter. The arrangement, four digits of running number, then a letter-plus-digit series, is not stated in the Вимоги; it is the Ukrainian Wikipedia article's description and is tagged as such in sources.
Legal basis and sources
- Додаток 1 тип 9 «Знаки для всіх типів автомобілів, автомобільних причепів, автобусів, самохідних машин та механізмів Збройних Сил України, а також тих, які належать органам військової контррозвідки Служби безпеки... https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/z0353-21
- ДСТУ 4278:2004 «Чинний від 2004-02-20», Таблиця 2 (types 9, 10) and Таблиця 4 (type 9: 5 digits, 1 letter), verbatim reproduction of the national standard; the official text is behind ДП «УкрНДНЦ». http://www.infocar.com.ua/law_ukr/law_22.html
- https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Номерні_знаки_України https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Номерні_знаки_України
This plate in your app
The series id is ua-military. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Ukraine's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/ua \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "ua-military")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/ua/ua-military.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/ua/ua-military/template.svg