Mission 4 DL Question <Spoilers>

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Spoiler

During Mission 4 after you have ID'd the Kirov in dock, you get a call from Knight to go and check out a Skunk, and you are given a heading and range from Wall Socket, but you are also told to follow your data link.

I have turned on both the link 16 and Link 4 DL's  in startup, but I am not able to find target displayed on the MAP or SA page, and I don't remember it on my HMD.  I'm still able to find it because of the range and bearing ... 

is this "a roleplayed data link" (because this functionality is not yet present in F/A-18) hence the range and bearing from Wall Socket or is this something I am not doing right ?

TIA