Real Warships Depicted in Evangelion

(Text below goes into each section heading) For the warships the characters were named after, see Warships of Neon Genesis Evangelion.

Abbreviations

CVN-Nuclear Powered Aircraft Carrier

CBGN-Nuclear Powered Guided Missile Battlecruiser

FFG-Guided Missile Frigate

DDG-Guided Missile Destroyer

BB-Battleship

The United Nations Pacific Fleet

Episode 08 Pacific Fleet

USS Harry S. Truman

Renamed "Over the Rainbow".

USS Harry S. Truman is the eighth Nimitz-class supercarrier of the United States Navy, named after the 33rd President of the United States. Officially commissioned on July 25, 1998, President Bill Clinton was the keynote speaker of the commissioning ceremony. Based in Norfolk, Virginia (As of this writing), she has won several awards, including three Battle E awards, and has taken part in numerous exercises and operations including participating in five weeks of relief efforts in the Gulf Coast following the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Also, as both carriers (Russian/American) use separate take-off systems, this allows flexibility for the carrier group and for aircraft who are not compatible with steam catapult launches.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Harry_S_Truman (General information)

http://www.navysite.de/cvn/cvn75.html (Unofficial website)

http://www.truman.navy.mil/ (Official website)

CBGN Kirov

(Seen on display.) Project 1144 Orlan, known in the west as the Kirov-class battlecruiser, consists of the four largest and most powerful missile cruisers ever built, presently the largest and most powerful surface warships in the world apart from Aircraft Carriers. Classified as "heavy missile cruisers" in Russia and "Battlecruisers" in the west (The misnomer was adapted due to their size and armament), the appearance of these vessels was a factor in the reintroduction of the Iowa class in the 1980s.

Powered by two nuclear reactors with auxiliary steam propulsion, they carry twenty massive SS-N-19 "Shipwreck" Anti-Ship missiles, and an assortment of other weapons and electronics. Weapons layouts vary from ship to ship. At present, the surviving vessels have their condition threatened by poor maintenance and a lack of funding.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirov_class_battlecruiser (General information and links)

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/1144.htm

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/row/rus/1144.htm

Iowa class

(Never-completed Illinois and Kentucky used to destroy Gaghiel.)

The Iowa-class battleships were the last battleships built by the United States Navy, and the most technologically advanced battleships ever made, more powerful than all but the Japanese Yamato class. Originally planned as a class of six battleships, only four were built, with the other two, Illinois and Kentucky, scrapped while still incomplete(Kentucky was to be a missile battleship if completed)[1].

Serving mostly as antiaircraft screens for Aircraft Carriers and shore bombardment platforms, the Iowas were mothballed after World War Two, brought back into action during the Korean War and then mothballed again. In 1968, New Jersey was briefly recommissioned and brought into the Vietnam War. In the 1980s, the class was recommissioned again under Ronald Reagan's 600-ship Navy initiative to fulfill the offshore bombardment role and provide a foil to the Kirov class. They were heavily modernized and fitted out with electronic warfare systems, Phalanx CIWS, Harpoon anti-ship and Tomahawk cruise missiles. Decommissioned for good in the early 1990s, the last two Iowas were removed from the mothball fleet for good in 2006.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_class_battleship

CVG Kuznetsov

(Kuznetsov seen in a few shots.) Admiral Kuznetsov is designated an Aircraft Carrier in the west and a "Heavy Aviation Cruiser" by her builders, combining an offensive air wing of Su-33 multirole fighters and Ka-27 antisubmarine helicopters with formidable point-defense and missile armament, including twelve deadly P-700 (SS-N-19) antiship missiles.

Unlike western carriers that use a steam catapult system to launch aircraft, the Kuznetsov allows aircraft to take off from a ski-ramp instead, reducing the stress on the pilot but also reducing maximum takeoff weight.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_aircraft_carrier_Admiral_Kuznetsov

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/1143_5.htm

http://www.webcom.com/~amraam/rcar.html

Oliver Hazard Perry class FFG

(Take the brunt of Gaghiel's attack.) The Oliver Hazard Perry class were built in the 1970s and 80s as general-purpose escort vessels to replace a large number of aging World War II era destroyers. Built in two batches (One slightly longer than the other), these vessels are due for major refit including a removal of obsolete offensive weaponry.

In 1987, the frigate USS Stark was attacked, seemingly by mistake, by Iraqi Exocet anti-ship missiles and sustained severe damage, including the deaths of thirty-seven sailors. Barely a year later, USS Samuel B. Roberts was damaged by an Iranian mine, and ten severely wounded crewmen had to be taken off the ship.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Hazard_Perry_class_frigate

USS Ramage (Arleigh Burke Class DDG)

Gun turret wrecked by Eva-02.

The USS Ramage is an Arleigh Burke class Destroyer of the United States Navy, commissioned in 1995. It, along with the other Arleigh Burke class vessels, is one of the largest and most powerful destroyers ever made, built entirely of steel(except for an aluminum mast) to reduce the damage done by antiship missile strikes. Rammage and her sisters have an air-filtration system against nuclear, biological and chemical warfare, the first US ships to use one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Ramage_%28DDG-61%29

Other Warships in the Show

DDG-099 Farragut

Farragut is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer of the US Navy, the 49th ship of the Arleigh Burke class. It was laid down on January 9, 2004 and christened on July 23, 2005. Unlike the other warships listed on this page, it didn't exist at the time the show was made. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Farragut_%28DDG-99%29