Following the success of our original Aircraft Recognition Playing Cards, we've released Ship Recognition Playing Cards, depicting the ships and crafts of China's People's Liberation Army!

Take your visual recognition skills to new heights with our modern "spotters" cards, depicting ships and crafts operated by China's People's Liberation Army (as of 2025), including China's Ground Force and Navy. This deck of playing cards is the result of months of research and illustration. The result is a deck of standard playing cards that cover 52 different in-service ships and 3 jokers that depict hospital ships - everything you need for your favorite card game or a fun round of visrecce or visual recognition!

Our most detailed deck yet, each card contains an illustration of a side of a ship along with basic stats, including length, beam (width), speed, and range in both metric and imperial units - information you've come to know from Recon Cards. Ship Recognition Playing Cards also includes fleet assignments and armaments of each ship depicted - elevating spotters cards to a new standard.

Each card contains illustrations created specifically for this deck of cards of the side of a ship - a view observers are most likely to see, paired with basic stats including length, beam (width), speed, and range, in both metric and imperial units.

Ship Recognition Playing Cards are modern interpretations of historical spotters cards used in World War II. Historically, spotters playing cards were developed and distributed to allied forces to help them identify and determine if ships and aircraft were friendly or foe.

This deck of cards is a great gift for history lovers and naval enthusiasts in your life. They contain useful information and facts about modern day ships and are fun to use at events, as well as a fun piece of memorabilia. They're also great playing cards as the card symbols in the corners (pips) are a regular size, so solitaire, spoons, or your favorite game of choice isn't compromised by the illustrations on the cards.

Our custom-designed playing cards use standard-sized playing cards and contain 52 cards and 3 jokers. These cards are printed in the United States by Shuffled Ink on their linen card stock.