A 2,500 ton corvette is nothing. They are built in series a dozen at a time at multiple shipyards. They are virtually meant to be expendable missile launching platforms.
Our loss of the Bonny Dick TO SABOTAGE BY ITS OWN CREW is 100 times more significant. It was the flagship of our current Pacific amphibious warfare capability, and will take more than a decade to replace, if it is ever replaced.
Like I say, as in WW II, we could build 10 of the Bon Homme’s if we wanted. The Russkies strain to build anything.
You may have forgotten how, by 1980 when the CIA said they were spending about 5%-10% of their GDP on the military, the real number was 50%, or how their new “wonder weapons” like the Alpha sub were in fact fatally flawed propaganda pieces.
No, I don’t believe the Russkies can afford to lose even a dinghy.