“Sink a carrier” is, in terms of how hard it is, somewhere around “bomb White House”. It’s absurdly hard to do even for a well-equipped nation state. Also, a

“Sink a carrier” is, in terms of how hard it is, somewhere around “bomb White House”. It’s absurdly hard to do even for a well-equipped nation state. Also, a huge problem with modern Russian hardware is that it’s largely vaporware. That’s why they are using all that USSR-era equipment.