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This study proposes a high-precision detection pipeline that integrates tiled training, Sliced Aided Hyper Inference (SAHI), and an oriented bounding box (OBB) variant of the lightweight YOLOv11 architecture. The proposed approach effectively addresses scale variability in Plan Position Indicator (PPI) radar images. Experiments were conducted on the real-world DAAN dataset provided by the German Aerospace Center (DLR). The dataset consists of 760 full-resolution radar frames containing multiple moving vessels, dynamic own-ship, and clutter sources. A semi-automatic contour-based annotation pipeline was developed to generate multi-format labels, including axis-aligned bounding boxes, oriented bounding boxes (OBBs), and instance segmentation masks, directly from radar echo characteristics. The results demonstrate that the tiled YOLOv11n-OBB model with SAHI achieves an mAP@0.5 exceeding 0.95, with a mean center localization error below 10 pixels. 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