Lieutenants McKee and Pendry are flying the two F-14's approaching the USS Daniel Boone at low height. Lieutenant Pendry was killed in episode #1.6 (Pilot Error) due to a malfunction in the APTERN-system.
The SM2's that the Daniel Boone launches are painted blue to indicated they do not have live warheads.
During the exercises they state that the attacking aircraft are flying off of USS Ranger (CV-61). The Ranger was decommissioned 10 July 1993 and was moored in Bremerton, WA. This was about two years before this episode aired.
On the radio they call the carrier by name, Ranger. Naval vessels use call signs rather than the ship's name. Ranger's call sign was Gray Eagle.
Lt. Commander Campisano is supposed to be the ship's new chief electronic warfare officer, the XO states that he is to report to his station on the bridge. When Lt. Commander Rabb asks the XO if he can question the other weapons control officers he is informed they are also on the bridge. On naval warships the bridge is primarily used for helm and navigation, in addition to being where the captain commands the ship from. Weapons control stations, and weapons control officers, are not stationed on the bridge, they are located in the Combat Information Center (CIC), the CIC on an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer contains all the computers used for the Aegis Combat System, and all other radar and sonar control computers. It is located in the center of the ship where the computers have the most shielding from both physical damage and electronic interference.
Arleigh Burke-class destroyers do not use missiles for close-range, point-defense attacks on aircraft. The main point-defense weapon used for close-range enemy aircraft is the Phalanx Close-In Weapons System (CIWS), which consists of a radar guided 20mm Vulcan Gatling style rotary cannon mounted on a swiveling base. The CIWS fires 20x102mm steel core, tungsten jacketed armor piercing bullets at a rate of 4,500 rounds per minute and is used to take out enemy aircraft, missiles and small vessels within 1,600 yards of the ship.
One scene shows a group of people protesting in Okinawa, Japan. However, the signs the group is carrying are all in Korean (Hangul) and some of the people are in traditional Korean costume.
Around 37:03 after Commander Brockman asks "Are you giving me an order?", you can see someone in a blue shirt with red stripe crouching behind him on the other side of the hatch.