Real Warships Depicted in Evangelion

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Several large warships are present, including four American Iowa-class Battleships, at least one Kirov-class Battlecruiser, an Admiral Kuznetsov-class Aircraft Carrier and multiple Nimitz-class Aircraft Carriers. Smaller vessels include Oliver Hazard Perry class Frigates and Alreigh Burke/Kongo class Guided Missile Destroyers. Although some vessels carry their old names (Kirov is unusual in retaining its Soviet name, considering it had been renamed Admiral Ushakov after the fall of the Soviet Union), most have been renamed, such as the Over the Rainbow itself (Formerly USS Harry S. Truman) and several other ships named after Shakespeare's plays.

( 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.

CBGN Kirov

Seen on display.

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).

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 fulfil 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.

CVG Kuznetsov

Kuznetsov seen in a few shots.

Oliver Hazard Perry class FFG

Take the brunt of Gaghiel's attack.

USS Rammage (Arleigh Burke Class DDG)

Gun turret wrecked by Eva-02.