Originally Posted by
orca
I’m sure that the logic holds - that a mech raster scan can be interrupted to conduct a ‘high density update’ on a contact - that’s essentially a high fidelity/ confirmatory Track While Scan. The AESA gives you Scan While Track. The difference being all targets can be similarly updated using rapid beam shift not just a high priority one/ next in your shot list etc.
Even the F3 in its latter years had "priority track"? Scanner would break from four bar scan to dwell over target(s) of interest without giving the game away,targets of interest going in and out of memory? Having just left the Typhoon world,not much has changed in the mechanical scanned world,remember MScan is 20+ years old now? Agreed faster scanner slew rates and lower noise floors compared to the F3 have made a difference in detection range,but the fundamentals haven't changed that much?