Passing this one on arcade.
Somethings really helped:
Rockets! Rockets! Around .50 to 1 km, rockets that hit can take down whole flights. I've tagged 2-3 while shooting them in conjunction with cannons / mg's.
Planning out the flights so that finishing passes end up close to firing position on another group or finishing a group puts you close to incoming groups, I lost on set because I was chasing too far, and using the map function generously.
That said,
Get that lone group before they get close. Sometimes I get goldfish memory in the heat of battle and forget I left a set unattended.
While using attention all flight and carry out objectives, also use attack as a group to get the transports that are getting close. All 3 can take down a target fast.
Regrouping alot. Sometimes your wing gets dragged all over the place.
Rear attacks while slowing throttle and the IL-2's heavy firepower gives you time to aim (and use rockets) are best. I preferred to do a head on pass and give them everything I had, chandelle around cut throttle and take them down.
Careful shooting when Yaks are around, especially if sending rockets out. On my game the Yaks (blue) really help alot, and I found out undiscriminating shooting sometimes tagged a Yak.
Search the skies around the yellow dots while closing in. I found out some transports aren't yellow tagged.
The transports stay as a flight, even if attacked. The exception is when they get close to the runway, they will separate (one will begin to land) but if you're at this point and the Yaks haven't shot them down, mission fail is around the corner.
Watch out, once the last transport goes down, you get victory and get your new objectives (bomb ground targets). 109s arrive and they are pissed! They will go for you even with 3 Yaks on their tail. Don't have your wing cover you, they'll get shot down.
Dealing with stealth transports:
What makes it really hard on arcade, is that some of the transports don't show up with the yellow tags (or red tags).
And these were fresh ones, I ain't talking about the ones the game considers shot down (pilot kill) and flying around before the crash and removes your targeting, I'm talking about legit flying I'm gonna end your mission suka targets.
That said, you can target them even though they don't show up on radar / map. They'll have the standard red arrow (and show up on radar) once you do.
If you run into a whole flight (rare but happens) target one so it red dots. Then look for the others and shoot them down. The transport don't separate, so targeting one will help keep track of the flight's position. Shoot down the target one last.
I saw some back lit on the search lights. Others you can see you're below them around 2, 4, 8, 10 o clock positions.
Others I found the Yaks (blue dots) were shooting and circling around some random space of the sky, and closer inspection found it was a transport. In some cases I've noticed the Yaks will go after them if they get close.
Your guys will not attack them if they are given objective command. If you target and group all or attack target, your flight will do so.
They fly the same pattern as the yellow groups. Sometimes they are found in stacked between the larger yellow groups.
On realistic they have the stealth ones, but since you fulfill the objective quickly by knocking down the yellows they aren't a factor.
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