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To effectively identify ship target type, we in this paper jointly consider the ship dynamic, formation, and feature information to propose a STR method based on Bayesian inference and evidence theory. Specifically, we first calculate the ship position distance matrix and the directional distance matrix with the Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) and the difference-vector algorithm taken into account. Then, we use the two distance matrices to obtain the ship formation information at different distance thresholds by the hierarchical clustering method, based on which we can infer the ship type. Thirdly, formation information and other attribute information are as nodes of the Bayesian Network (BN) to infer the ship type. Afterward, we can convert the recognition results at different thresholds into body of evidences (BOEs) as multiple information sources. Finally, we fuse the BOEs to get the final recognition. The proposed method is verified in simulation battle scenario in this paper. 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