A carrier's best torpedo defence starts outside weapon range

Do aircraft carriers have their own point-defence equivalent against submarines and torpedoes?

They have helicopters and countermeasures, but the best defence is the task group's ability to keep submarines outside torpedo range.

Point defences differ from the layered anti-submarine work of the surrounding task group. Individual carriers can embark helicopters and may use systems such as Prairie-Masker or dedicated anti-torpedo measures. Those tools complicate an attack after contact has developed, but they do not replace finding and holding submarines farther away. The practical priority is to keep the threat beyond torpedo range instead of relying on a last-ditch shipboard response.