Um...No. Sonar is not radar. Radar is electromagnetic - UHF and above. Sonar is acoustic - sound. A towed array is a passive system - basically a whole lot of very sensitive microphones on a long cable.
Doesn't anyone in the MSM take the time to properly research, write, and edit their "work product" anymore?
Active/passive.
So what radar do you think they were draging? An APS-147?
What, from the people who regularly bring you stuff like "assault rifle" for anything that goes 'bang', "the gun accidentally shot the child", and "right-wing extremist"?
They probably got it from Wiki.
Actually, radar works well into the MF range, depending on the size of the target, but you are correct that SONAR is not RADAR.
/johnny
RADAR and SONAR are just acronyms for electromagnetic waves generated in different mediums, namely above or below surface. Maybe the reporter interviewed a snipe. Towed arrays can be used, as already mentioned,in either passive or active mode. My take is that the active mode (ECCM) worked too well for the Chicom boat driver/sonar man/ and the officer in the conning tower.Just gotta miss the professionalism of the old Soviet fleet. They would have responded by getting a Sovremenny to light you up with a two bin SS-N-22.
There are radars that are much lower than UHF. Most Over The Horizon (OTH) radars are HF.
If you've ever listened to the "Russian Woodpecker" on the HF ham bands, you've heard one (or more) of them.