To either turn them on and off auto fire, or to allow us to switch between forward targeting and the other modes. It makes using them while bounty hunting annoying because you gotta use right panel to switch to forwards fire all time just so you can kill scan ships to see if are wanted.
Other option is please allow us to use the kill scanner without having to deploy hardpoints, you can with some of the other scanners.
Other option is please allow us to use the kill scanner without having to deploy hardpoints, you can with some of the other scanners.