I wouldn't say light weight torps are useless in RA. Unlike vanilla, RA fixed most torp sensor parameters, now the torps need be used under a much stricter envelope. To use light weight torps more successfully, you need a better fix on the target. Doing so on a Perry is usually pretty difficult. That's why I use onboard mk50 and mk54 only for close quarter self-defense. Perry's main asw weapon should the helo's. In RA, you can set Helo do different patterns of search and target fixing. Once you have it boxed, you need drop one practically rite on top of it for the torp to acquire and hit. I have had many successes with controlling helo's from Perry and let it do the dirty work. In my honest opinion, RA did a pretty good job with torps and helo's. But in various ways, it downgraded American onboard sensors and surface ship weapons a big deal.
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