The group seen through the canopy of the helicopter.
KENSUKE (ON):“..."Over the Rainbow"!”
SHINJI:“It's huge.”
MISATO:“That relic is doing well to stay afloat.”
The sun and the blue sky are reflected in the glass.
KENSUKE:“No, no —”
Javi2541997: You can see the sun reflected in the glass. This is Asuka's episode. Probably the first reference about her.
Kendrix: What this sequence also does is add a bit of worldbuilding of how the world has changed after second impact with NERV ending up as mankind's line of defense, continuing on the motif of rivalry between nerve & traditional military already sort of hinted in eps 1 and 4...
Though Misato has moments of worrying about her organization's ethics and overreach at this point she's quite arrogant & unconcerned about just laughing off the military dudes.
You could draw some parallel to how conventional military seemed to be becoming obsolete in a world where sources of chaos & instability were often non-government organizations that you couldn't crush with standard warfare (that was a prominent thought in the 90s and 00s anyways, these days war seems back in full force as a new rise of nationalistic selfishness weakened global institutions, if they were ever good for anything in the first place with all the power imbalances...)
