Herein, we propose employing the super-resolution-based convolutional neural network (CNN) to design the automatic target recognition (ATR) of military synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Previous SAR ATR methods showed a good recognition performance with a low depression angle, but poor performance with a high depression angle. In a warfighting environment, good recognition performance is required even with a high depression angle. To address this issue, we combine the super-resolution method and the CNN. In comparison with the conventional VGGnet with a high depression angle, the proposed super-resolution-based CNN showed a 3%-4% improvement in accuracy. The MSTAR SAR dataset was utilized for validation. © ICROS 2022.