How to hunt down a ship

[scopedk]

i have a mission where i should "kill" some ships in a system. First i had difficulty in finding them - but then i found one during my frame shift. But how do i catch him? I always just go by him - i cant "stop" him or whatever?

 

[Fia]

The ships you can see while in frame shift can only be caught with an interdictor. Either go to the nav beacon near where you first enter a new system or else the unknown signal sources (USS) and you will find pirates at some, but not all, of them. The main problem then is that it only seems to count about half of your legitimate pirate kills for the mission. I abandoned one earlier where had killed more than the seven required but it did not count any, all wanted and all in the correct system.

 

[Jikahn]

From what I have seen, any kills where you pull a pirate out of supercruise do not count. Nor does it count if you get interdicted and make the kill versus an obvious pirate. To progress in these missions it's best to use the instances, like nav beacons, asteroid clusters, USS's, etc.