Real Warships Depicted in Evangelion

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Page with basic information on the warships seen in Episode 08 and Episode 12. Meant to contain information about the actual ships depicted. Information on their depiction in NGE goes in the United Nations Pacific Fleet page instead.

For the warships the characters were named after, see Historical Warships in Evangelion.

Naval 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

(In-series: Renamed "Over the Rainbow" and used as Pacific Fleet Flagship.)

USS Harry S. Truman is an American Nimitz-class nuclear powered aircraft carrier, and that makes it one of the most powerful warships afloat, capable of taking ninety to a hundred combat aircraft anywhere in the world. The presence of a Nimitz-class carrier in any part of the world is, in layman's terms, big business. Truman is the eighth carrier, being named after the 33rd President of the United States, Harry S. Truman. Two more Nimitz-class carriers- the USS Ronald Reagan and the USS George H.W. Bush, have been built after the Truman, with additional modifications added along the way.

The Truman was the last carrier built before the year 2000, construction being underway at the time Evangelion aired. When it was officially commissioned (brought into service as a warship) on July 25, 1998, President Bill Clinton was the keynote speaker of the commissioning ceremony. Based in Norfolk, Virginia (As of this writing), her crew has won several awards, and the ship has taken part in numerous exercises and operations. It took part in five weeks of relief efforts in the Gulf Coast following the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

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)

Heavy Missile Cruiser Kirov(Currently Admiral Ushakov)

(In-series: Seen on display.)

Kirov was the first ship belonging to Project 1144 Orlan(Sea Eagle), classified by the Russians as a "Heavy Missile Cruiser" and known in the west as the Kirov-class battlecruiser (Note: Russians do not put their ships into "classes" named after the first vessel, as in the west). Kirov and her sister ships Frunze, Kalinin and Yuri Andropov (Renamed Admiral Ushakov, Admiral Lazarev, Admiral Nakhimov and Peter the Great respectively after the fall of the USSR) are the four largest and most powerful missile cruisers ever built, designed to attack American aircraft carriers and their escorts with their huge missiles. Classified as "heavy missile cruisers" in Russia and "Battlecruisers" in the west (Real battlecruisers are long gone, the moniker was adopted due to their size and armament), the appearance of these vessels was a factor in the reintroduction of the World War Two era Iowa class battleships in the 1980s.

Powered by two nuclear reactors with auxiliary steam propulsion (a weird arrangement...with nuclear reactors, you'd think they'd have all the power in the world), they carry twenty massive P-700 Granit anti-ship missiles, appropriately called the SS-N-19 "Shipwreck" by NATO. They have a formidable battery of anti-aircraft missiles, and an assortment of anti-submarine and close-in weapons systems, and assorted electronics systems. Weapons and electronics vary from ship to ship, with the last ship, Peter the Great, being the most advanced. At present, the surviving vessels have their condition threatened by poor maintenance and a lack of funding, although the Russian Navy does want to bring them back into their prior operational condition.

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

(In-series: Two ships that in real life were canceled while partially complete, Illinois (BB-65) and Kentucky (BB-66), used to destroy Gaghiel. One more Iowa seen when Eva-02 makes its final landing on the carrier.)

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, in 1945 and 1947 respectively. (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 II, 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 in the 1980's 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. Missouri was used in Operation Desert Storm in 1991, the last wartime use of the Iowa-class. 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

(In series: Kuznetsov seen in a few shots, and appears to have taken damage from Gaghiel.)

Admiral Kuznetsov is the first and only combat-capable vessel of her class (Project 1143), her sister vessel Varyag having been sold to China and kept in a non-combat capable form. 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. She is the only carrier in the Russian Fleet that can carry aircraft that take off and land conventionally, unlike the previous Kiev class which were restricted to VTOL aircraft.

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

(In-series: Take the brunt of Gaghiel's attack. A number of them are shown burning or exploding.)

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)

(In-series: 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

(In-series: Gendo transmits from this vessel, offscreen, at the end of Episode 12. Unlike the other warships listed on this page, it didn't exist at the time the show was made.)

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. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Farragut_%28DDG-99%29