Ticonderoga SM-2 question.

Why can't the Ticonderoga shoot a lot of SM-2's at the same time?

Even if there are more than two enemy planes flying, she only fires one SM-2 at a time.

https://imgur.com/Jwgq9rJ

The Ticonderoga is equipped with four AN/SPG-62s, so at least four of them should be able to do terminal guidance at the same time.

The Chinese Type 052C at DCSWorld can shoot missiles at multiple targets.

https://imgur.com/Ooi2jLA

Is this a bug? Or am I doing it the wrong way?

I don’t know how much the Ticonderoga can shoot, but near in mind the type 346 on 052C is an AESA

AEGIS isn't properly modeled. The SM2's only need SARH guidance for the terminal phase of flight. So iirc, how it should work is the system will automatically detect, assign, and target every detected target and share this with all the other ships in the group over datalink. For each target the ship will launch 2 SM2's and will guide them via midcourse updates (like with an amraam) via the main radar until terminal. Then the ships TR's will illuminate the target. With this though the ship can launch on more targets then just four. While the first sets are outbound you can launch multiple additional sets. So long as it sets up the launches far enough apart that each missile can get time with the TR for its final terminal guidance. Of course as missiles get closer other systems will be used as well such as ESSM which the more modern versions of are active and those that arn't I think operates on the same principle but i'd need to check when I got time.