[andqui]

Are you sure? I've seen planes strafe ships. I've seen B-25's strafe ships and once, I set up a kamikaze mission wrong with a Dinah and set it up wrong so it started strafing a battleship.

I don't think it happens every time over water. The most recent time it happened, four corsairs divebombed some ships, and the next attack waypoint was stuff on the beach nearby. They never started strafing the ground targets and proceeded to the next waypoint.