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The multi-scale recurrent and weights sharing strategies are introduced to increase network capacity without multiplying the number of weights parameters. A convolutional long short-term memory (convLSTM) unit is embedded to capture useful information and helps with despeckling across scales. Meanwhile, the sub-pixel unit is utilized to improve the network efficiency. Besides, two criteria, edge feature keep ratio (EFKR) and feature point keep ratio (FPKR), are proposed to evaluate the performance of despeckling capacity for SAR, which can assess the retention ability of the despeckling algorithm to edge and feature information more effectively. Experimental results show that our proposed network can remove speckle noise while preserving the edge and texture information of images with low computational costs, especially in the low signal noise ratio scenarios. The peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) of MSR-net can outperform traditional despeckling methods SAR-BM3D (Block-Matching and 3D filtering) by more than 2 dB for the simulated image. 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