It must have escaped my mind.
Yes, that is why in my post #2212 I wrote "fixed or fast rotating".
I consider the refresh rate of SPS-48 and Fregat, Sea Eagle to be insufficient to qualify for that. OTOH, the EMPAR and SAMPSON are rotating arrays that go at 60 rpm which I consider to be the minimum threshold to meet the rapid refresh rate for fixed arrays.
Slow rotating radars are meant for range and volume search. The slower the radar turns, the longer the scanning rate, the longer the range, the longer the time the radar dwells on the target, which increases the signal strength of the echo, which makes for a better return over longer distances. This is also accompanied by longer wave bands and longer pulse repetition frequency. This is not being outdated, the slow rate has a purpose. These radars cue other faster scanning and higher frequency radars to track the target for engagement. Radars generally look for a sweet spot between range and tracking rates; range is not the be all, and all for radar performance.
Some radars orient more for range, others for tracking performance and ships tend to carry both to get the best of both worlds. APAR+SMART L is a good example of this combination. On certain Russian ships, and with the Type 051C, you see this with the FREGAT, along with the RIF-M. FREGAT searches long range rotating a full 360 degrees, detects, then tracks the targets, cues the RIF radar, which is a Tombstone or Flap Lid type phase array, that tracks targets even further with a higher tracking rate, then engages them by lighting them up to guide SARH or TVM missiles to it.
In cases like the 054A, or Russian ships with FREGAT and Shtil missile systems, its likely the Orekh or Front Domes also act as tracking radars then switch to a single target track illumination mode, similar to a fighter jet radar, for missile guidance. My understanding is that Type 382 rotates more than twice as fast as FREGAT, with up to 30 RPM. With dual face, that means 60 scans per minute, and it also has a C-band mode for more accurate tracking. Radars like the Type 364 on the aft funnel and the Type 366 on top of the bridge also joins in with the search and tracking, which is also what they do on the 051C, 052C/D, all giving you simultaneous, redundant, full 360 coverage.
I prefer to use the term "Aegis type" rather than "Aegis like". "Aegis type" suggests that this is a category of ship, of which the original Aegis (TM) ships were the pioneering members of. Considering that those ships were indeed the first vessels that capture the common key capabilities that we see proliferating among the high end surface combatants in the world, I think the phrase "Aegis type" is a polite nod to acknowledge that those ships were the first of the type.
Air defense ships had actually existed before AEGIS. If the Patriot system was navalized, would you call it an AEGIS like system?
The other important role of the phrase "Aegis type" IMO, is that it provides a fast and straight forward way of letting lay-people know what the key attributes of a certain ship labelled as "Aegis type" has.
When someone describes a ship as an "Aegis" ship, what do they usually think of? Is it VLS and SPY-1 and Mk-99? Well it might include the former two, but I suspect most people wouldn't be aware of the Mk-99 and the method in which the Mk-99 is used to guide SARH SAMs.
IMO, what people do think of, is the idea of a powerful radar with the ability to monitor 360 degrees around the ship at once (which I think we can reasonably stretch to include fast refresh rotating radars), the ability to launch multiple missiles and engage multiple incoming aerial targets at once, all tied up with a unified combat system.
In other words, its just branding. You associate a brand to a certain quality, like Xerox is to copiers. or why "PC" which is an IBM copyrighted trademark, becomes associated to a whole genre of computers.
I like to be more specific, especially when the branding is associated with a copyright.
Regardless where the Tombstone phase array faces --- its not fully rotating, it turns and faces the targets --- this ship has full 360 coverage thanks to all the other radars you see up high. They cue the phase array towards the target or targets for engagement, where the array can concurrently engage up to six targets or even up to 12. Does this qualify as Aegis like?