You can take two seemingly identical sisterships, and one will be well maintained with good engines and systems, a well trained crew, a good tactical doctrine etc. and one will be a rust bucket with engines that are unreliable, a poorly trained crew etc., clearly a massive imbalance despite looking the same on paper. Although not sister ships, a good example would be a battle between the Nigerian Navy Meko and a Anzac Meko, if both were the same variant Meko with similar equipment, which do you think would win? The Nigerian boat struggles to leave harbour without breaking down, is obviously in poor condition, Nigerian training is poor etc., the Anzac would destroy it with it’s high quality crew and high maintenance and operational efficiency. Same with brochure figures, what is the operational condition of the engines? What updates have the c&c facilities had? What software revision? What is the status of the weapons? Half of these weapons struggle to work at anything like brochure efficiency (look at the operational deployments of any major military force and you soon see stories of weapons systems not performing), the list goes on.
Yes, you are right, this list can grow very long, many other factors should be taken into consideration. But can you please go into details on each area. Like some posts above, at least they started on gathering basic info, e.g. how many aircrafts can those carriers support.
Maybe, you can start comparing the engines, which one is better?
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