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Land reflection and sea clutter introduce noise into SAR imaging, making the ship features in the image less prominent, which makes the detection of multi-scale ship targets more difficult. Therefore, a cross-scale ship detection network for SAR images based on efficient receptive field and enhanced hierarchical fusion is proposed. In order to retain more information and lighten the weight of the network, an efficient receptive field feature extraction backbone network (ERFBNet) is designed, and the multi-channel coordinate attention mechanism (MCCA) is embedded to highlight the ship features. Then, an enhanced hierarchical feature fusion network (EHFNet) is proposed to better characterize the features by fusing information from lower and higher layers. Finally, the feature map is input into the detection head with improved bounding box loss function. 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