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CNN can work with notably high effectiveness under the standard operating condition (SOC). However, it can hardly cope with various extended operating conditions (EOCs), which are not covered by the training samples. In contrast, the ASC matching can handle many EOCs related to the local variations of the target by building a one-to-one correspondence between two ASC sets. Therefore, it is promising that both effectiveness and efficiency of the ATR method can be improved by combining the merits of the two classification schemes. The test sample is first classified by CNN. A reliability level calculated based on the outputs from CNN. Once there is a notably reliable decision, the whole recognition process terminates. Otherwise, the test sample will be further identified by ASC matching. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method, extensive experiments are conducted on the Moving and Stationary Target Acquisition and Recognition (MSTAR) dataset under SOC and various EOCs. 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