Maybe you'd like to name names and point out specifics. You on the other hand have a proven track record of "pride driven pissing" on this forum, so your statement here is about as laughable as an alcoholic calling someone else a "drunkard".
This statement reveals your obvious lack of understanding of USN CSG missile engagements and hardware. The Mk99 FCRs on the Burkes and Ticos are incapable of "time sharing" since they are purely mechanically slewed illuminators that are slaved to the SPY-1 radar. Time sharing is the exclusive domain of ESAs like the APAR, PAAMS, and Sampson, of which the Mk99 is most definitely NOT a member.
A unidirectional attack is most definitely the best way to ensure maximum effectiveness of Aegis warships. Good job there.
First of all, it is utterly ludicrous to try and isolate a Burke or Tico so that only one of their FCRs is available. It is actually physically impossible with a Tico, and a Burke's frontal arc is the only quadrant with a single FCR. If a missile wave is approaching from the frontal aspect, the Burke can simply turn the ship to easily and immediately expose all 3 of its illuminators to the incoming missile wave. How are you going to prevent that except by wishful thinking??? LOL
Second, as I said before, the Mk99 FCR is a mechanically slewed illuminator. It is active during the last couple seconds of an air defense missile's terminal attack phase by lighting up the target so that the SARH-guided SM-2 or ESSM can zero in on the exact location of the target based on the illumination bouncing off the target and getting picked up by the SM-2/ESSM. The closer the incoming targets are bunched together, the faster and more efficiently the Mk99 can do its job of illuminating one target after another (more time illuminating, less time slewing). If all the missiles are coming in from the same direction, all 3 Mk99s will be slewed towards that direction and will rapidly pick off one target after another in quick succession. If on the other hand incoming missiles are all arriving at the same time but from several different directions, the Mk99 illuminators will be severely strained to slew from one target to another in time to intercept all the incoming targets. In that case you may have at most one Mk99 available to intercept targets from a given direction (and maybe not even one), and could potentially overwhelm its mechanical capabilities with enough missiles.
Third, you totally forgot (or didn't even understand) that OTH engagements don't involve the Mk99 illuminator at all. The SM-2IIIB (currently the standard iteration) has an IR sensor that can target contacts independently of any external sensor or can be guided by direction from the Hawkeye. The SM-6 can also be guided by the Hawkeye or can independently target contacts via its active radar homing sensor. These missiles will in fact start the engagement hundreds of km before the Mk99 can even get involved.
