Doubt the Russian ship has undergone the extensive PM and retrofitting the U.S. carrier fleet does. The point is that this attack is not some strategic victory that will affect the outcome of the war.
No doubt the ship was targeted for propaganda value. Ukraine needs some token victory to keep the money flowing. The vaunted counteroffensive was a dismal failure.
You aren’t saying anything, that is just a meaningless whine to counter some news that someone doesn’t like, it is immature to try and counter every major war story of a given day with a meaningless emotional response.
Doubt the Russian ship has undergone the extensive PM and retrofitting the U.S. carrier fleet does.
The ship was sitting in port, unfit to get underway because it needed repairs that required parts that were unavailable due to sanctions. It was damaged in a prior attack. It was removed from action 24 August 2022, almost a year and a half ago.
The strategic value of a ship that cannot get underway until after the war is, to say the least, questionable. Its greatest value was as a distraction to divert attention from the disaster in Maryinka.
Novocherkassk at 320 feet is not a very large ship. It is dwarfed by a Zumwalt class destroyer at 505 feet, not to mention aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford at over 1100 feet.
Russians claimed one fatality. That sounds reasonable. One would not expect a full crew, but one security guard is more likely. It would not have held a full load of equipment either.