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Nonetheless, SAR images present distinct challenges, including complex backgrounds, small ship targets, and noise interference, thereby rendering the detectors particularly demanding. In this paper, we introduce LRTransDet, a real-time SAR ship detector. LRTransDet leverages a lightweight vision transformer (ViT) and a multi-scale feature fusion neck to address these challenges effectively. First, our model implements a lightweight backbone that combines convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and transformers, thus enabling it to simultaneously capture both local and global features from input SAR images. Moreover, we boost the model\u2019s efficiency by incorporating the faster weighted feature fusion (Faster-WF2) module and coordinate attention (CA) mechanism within the feature fusion neck. These components optimize computational resources while maintaining the model\u2019s performance. To overcome the challenge of detecting small ship targets in SAR images, we refine the original loss function and use the normalized Wasserstein distance (NWD) metric and the intersection over union (IoU) scheme. This combination improves the detector\u2019s ability to efficiently detect small targets. To prove the performance of our proposed model, we conducted experiments on four challenging datasets (the SSDD, the SAR-Ship Dataset, the HRSID, and the LS-SSDD-v1.0). The results demonstrate that our model surpasses both general object detectors and state-of-the-art SAR ship detectors in terms of detection accuracy (97.8% on the SSDD and 93.9% on the HRSID) and speed (74.6 FPS on the SSDD and 75.8 FPS on the HRSID), all while demanding 3.07 M parameters. 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