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The mixture of factor analyzers (MFA) can accurately describe high resolution range profile (HRRP) statistical characteristics.But how to determine the proper number of the models is a problem.This paper develops a variational Bayesian mixture of factor analyzers (VBMFA) model.This procedure can obtain a lower bound on the Bayesian integral using the Jensens inequality. An analytical solution of the Bayesian integral could be obtained by a hypothesis that latent variables in the model are independent.During computing the parameters of the model,birth-death moves are utilized to determine the optimal number of model automatically.Experimental results for measured data show that the VBMFA method has better recognition performance than FA and MFA method.