What makes an Aircraft carrier a powerful weapon is its capability to launch and recover fighter jets. Disabling this mechanism will make it useless.

In 2007, I had a once in a life time opportunity to study the ship's capabilities and vulnerabilities.

I recorded a max velocity of 40 knots navigating in a straight line for a short period of time then reduced the speed to a speed that would be classified,  then used a sig sag method with difference of speed intervals.  This, I could call it a "randomized routing". This method is employed to alter the ship’s course in a deliberate, irregular pattern to make it less predictable and harder for enemies to intercept it. 

So far so good, however, a good detection system will automatically make the ship vulnerable to air or submerged attacks using a simple GPS/GPI system or simply because in order to become invisible from the radars, there must be absolutely no electronic devices onboard the ship. Imagine all sailors having airtags onboard, it would be ridiculously stupid.

Imagine a classified server compared to a server that is constantly online and vulnerable to cyber attacks.

In 2007, I still did not have a smartphone, but I used a device similar to a Tom Tom, which left a trace that formed the pattern that I later uploaded to a google map for further analysis to try to predict its course in a randomized manner.

What make this types of ships unsinkable is the inter compartments all separated by water tight hatches and latches.  

Disabling a ship would be less drastic then sinking a it from a moral perspective.

So, let's talk about disabling it for the sake of peace and harmony.

I have analyzed the Russians and, I have to say, they are more intelligent when it comes to predictive intelligence also called swarm intelligence.

A Russian aircraft carrier will always be different from a US aircraft carrier.

Russian fighter jets look more robust and larger that US fighters.

Large capacity bombers look similar in dimensions and payload capacity.

The Russians use a broad variety of missiles for different uses, mostly defense.

The Submarines are way more stealth than that of the West.

Russian drones are smaller for attack missions compared to US drones are more for special recognizance missions.

So, based on my research and analysis, this is how an aircraft carrier becomes disable without human fatalities.

Serna-class project 11830E

Therefore, when you disable one whole ship of the type, you are also disabling a whole squadron of (80) multirole hornets all at once with their respective early warning squadron of (4) E2 Hawkeyes.

The type of torpedo used in this case scenario is to be classified for security reasons.

An imminent and unnecessary war can be avoided intelligently and without casualties.