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Cutlasses will not be subject to registration with the Rosgvardiya, they will not require obtaining a permit to store and carry weapons

The State Duma on Tuesday adopted in the second reading a government bill allowing retired officers of the Russian Navy to wear cutlasses for life as part of the ceremonial uniform, without issuing a special permit for this.

The US Army intends to abandon the old methods of assessing the physical parameters of military personnel in favor of more accurate and high-tech. Four new techniques are being tested at Fort Bragg on a group of volunteers.

The ministry stressed that when approving the draft Code of Ethics for Artificial Intelligence, comments on the priority of national interests and on the implementation of the requirements of the National Security Strategy were taken into account.

The Zvezdochka Ship Repair Center (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation) has started implementing activities within the framework of the national project "Labor Productivity".

According to the Ministry of Defense of Lithuania, the government of the country has developed a draft state budget for 2022, according to which it is planned to increase spending on national defense by 128 million euros (7.1%) to 1.176 billion. euro ($1.367 billion).

In Komsomolsk-on-Amur, it is planned to place the production of light multipurpose aircraft "Baikal". The new plant will appear in the Dzemga area, near the Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft assembly shop.

If the activities of PMCs come into conflict with Russian laws, the Russian Federation will react

The activities of private military companies abroad do not reflect the interests of the state, this is a private business, and if their activities conflict with Russian laws, Russia will react, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

The Joe Biden administration will be able to save "tens of millions of American lives" from enemy attacks only if it takes steps to strengthen national defense, writes former combat and staff officer of the US Army Devin Pine in the magazine The National Interest.

The American company Blue Origin, which is a competitor to SpaceX, is considering participating in a competition of the US Department of Defense, which provides for the possibility of using spacecraft instead of aircraft to deliver military cargo around the planet, SpaceNews reports.

According to the current legislation, the age limit for military service for them is 65 years, a new contract with them can be concluded before reaching the age of 70 years

The State Duma on Thursday adopted in the first reading a bill allowing to increase by the decision of the President of the Russian Federation the age limit for military service for a marshal, army general and fleet admiral.

American private aerospace companies Boeing and SpaceX will seek to increase the number of flights to the ISS under contracts with NASA, said John Vollmer, head of Boeing's commercial manned flight program.

The detention of Marat Arustamov is the result of an audit by the internal audit service of the corporation, the interlocutor of TASS noted

The criminal case in which the Deputy Director General of the Center for the Operation of Ground-based Space Infrastructure Facilities (CENKI, part of Roscosmos) was detained Marat Arustamov, initiated, among other things, as a result of an audit of the Roscosmos internal audit service. This was reported to TASS by a source in the rocket and space industry.

This will allow for a phased transfer of the military communications system to digital methods of processing and transmitting information

The communications troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will receive more than 12 thousand samples of modern equipment this year. This was announced by the head of the Main Communications Department of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Vadim Shamarin, in an interview with the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper on the eve of the Day of the Signal Troops.

The enterprise does not cope with the function of the general contractor of construction works at the cosmodrome, the interlocutor of TASS noted

Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin "gave a dressing down" to the Director General of the Center for the Operation of Ground-based Space Infrastructure Facilities (CENKI) Ruslan Mukhamedzhanov due to dissatisfaction with the progress of construction work at the Vostochny cosmodrome. This was reported to TASS by a source in the rocket and space industry.

The head of the State Corporation "Roscosmos" Dmitry Rogozin on Tuesday, October 19, ordered the change of the general contractor for the construction of the Vostochny cosmodrome, as well as the creation of a subordinate construction department, which will become the new general contractor.

Three interstate standards for such a relatively new industry as extreme robotics will be developed by scientists of the All-Russian Research Institute for Civil Defense and Emergency Situations (VNII GOChS) EMERCOM of Russia. This information was announced at the first international scientific and practical conference of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia on the development of robotics Roboemercom.

According to the state defense order, 10 new tankers based on KamAZ-63501 and KamAZ-5350 vehicles were delivered to the MTO CVO compound stationed in the Kemerovo region.

Artificial intelligence can be used for network monitoring

The experts of the Russian Security Council propose to take additional measures to combat fakes published on the Internet, said the press secretary of the Russian Security Council Yevgeny Anoshin.

Military threats, political and economic pressure from Western countries have forced Russia and Belarus to take retaliatory measures, one of them is the new Military Doctrine of the Union State, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

The US military has begun active work on the modernization of tactical nuclear weapons and their storage bases in European countries. This was stated on Wednesday, October 20, by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.