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The shallow layer and deep layer features are fused at the same scale after sampling to overcome the problems of low dimensionality in the deep layer and the inadequate expression of small objects. The sizes of candidate regions are modified to fit the size of the actual airplanes in the remote sensing images. The fully connected layers are replaced with convolutional layers to reduce the network parameters and adapt to different input image sizes. The region proposal network shares convolutional layers with the detection network, which ensures high detection efficiency. The simulation results indicate that, when compared to typical airplane detection methods, the proposed method is more accurate and has a lower false alarm rate. 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