Sun Tzu taught us:
Know your enemy and know yourself, find naught in fear for 100 battles. Know yourself but not your enemy, find level of loss and victory. Know thy enemy but not yourself, wallow in defeat every time.
In the new combat system, it's important to know your enemy in great detail. I speed up active scans with AP, the $500 K it costs against the average # of opponents I can take on, is worth it IMO. But having to start the same p*ss annoying process over and over again for 8-10 ships/stations, IS irritating. Would it be possible to insert a button that allows you to buy a full report on ALL ships, and just pay 1 AP per unit in one go?
Ideally, the result of your scans, whether done as a complete report in one go, or ship by ship, would be visible on the battlefield screen (where the timer runs). At least add ship class, optimisations and attack/shield/armour/manpower/combat speed data to it please.