This also ocours partialy in other missions like bombing ships. You do find a couple of goal target ships but there is always at least 8 ships (destroyers and cargos) or 1 cruzader an 2 destroyers.

In those cases I advice you to fly to your waypoint and then fly arround in a methodic way. Use the map (press M key) to orientate yourself. It takes alot of patience, I already spend 15 minutes trying to spot ships.

i did that, i circled over the target for 10 mins , quite low , nothing happened, so i climbed to 20,000 ft , circled, nothing happened?


what i am i doing wrong?

is there like a marker on the tactiacal display which is purple?

cuase i dont see any

plz help

something I remembered, maybe your pilot has poor vision. Vision is important for these kind of missions.
Also, dont thrust your tactical display alone when searching targets, use your own eyes. Jump for Spot View and circle arround your aircraft scaning the sea (assuming it's sea). Boats are visible at a much much longer range than the tactical display.