IDing Hostiles with PS-37/A Radar and App-27 RWR

[Horns]

Ok, so nailing my own sub in "Hunting the Hunters" has got a bit old, especially because I need both RB 04Es to sink the Russian frigate. The Viggen's PS-37/A radar doesn't identify friend from foe, and my flight seem to call "mudspike" on the friendly sub as well as the hostile frigate. I can't visually tell sub from frigate from any useful range, so the only tool I can think of to ID the hostile is the radar warning I get from the App-27 RWR. That leaves me with two questions:

 

1) What is the range of the RWR? and

 

2) If I'm in range to receive a radar warning, wouldn't the same be true for the frigate?

 

I'd like to be able to ID and fire on the hostile frigate before I trigger a radar warning for it, because once it's aware of my presence it seems like its SAMs do a decent job of taking out at least one of my missiles.

 

If any of you can answer my questions or can suggest a different way to ID the target I'd be grateful if you let me know.

[Nealius]

I ID'ed the frigate by seeing SAM trails on the horizon.....

[Horns]

I ID'ed the frigate by seeing SAM trails on the horizon.....

 

Ta :) If the RWR doesn’t tell me the SAM trails will.

[Horns]

I ID'ed the frigate by seeing SAM trails on the horizon.....

 

Do you use the original loadout for this mission? Are you generally pretty successful at avoiding SAMs?