A loss of a carrier doesn&#x27;t incur by itself any economic cost, however building it does.<p>Your Soviet analogy makes sense, even though their mistake was building it (and not losing it - I don&#x27;t know about great losses of the Soviets after 45)<p>Also, IANA expert but I think carriers today only make sense against pre-missile and pre-jet militaries. IMO a carrier can only operate under air superiority and effective missile defense one of which probably even small countries can contest these days.