Well the torp Launcher will not work on planets. The Lasers should be enough to take one out still, they aren't that hard after all. But didn't try it yet.

Is this able to take on PPVs?

No. Nothing important at all. There is no internals behind them.

It is mostly the annoyance of needing a repair bay or manually replacing blocks after a minor scuffle with a couple flak turrets. Those carbon blocks were destroyed by aoe effect of flak hitting cockpit or steel nose. I upgraded nose underside to steel up to the front landing gear. Flak is easier to face tank but it is mostly moot anyway with all the other shield penetration.

Repair bay is the big part of the main RE2 gameplay loop now, isn't it?

Did something important break?

I went after target with flak cannons. Carbon blocks under cockpit around landing gears got shredded easily with the flak shield penetration.

Neat, I haven't tried the new torpedoes yet, will have some fun w/ this tonight.