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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 commander of the Guard unit, Colonel Yevgeny Zhuravlev, held a briefing for representatives of the military delegation

A Sri Lankan military delegation visited the Kantemirov Tank Division of the 1st Guards Tank Army of the Western Military District in the Moscow region. This was reported on Tuesday in the press service of the ZVO.

The American company General Dynamics Land Systems has signed an agreement with the startup Epirus on the integration of its Leonidas pulsed electromagnetic weapon on the Stryker armored vehicle. According to The Drive, the developers want to offer this combination to the US Army, which plans to equip Stryker with a directed energy weapon and has already tested it with a combat laser.

Statements that Kiev could aim missiles at Moscow were not a threat to Russia, the emphasis was placed on the defensive nature of the country's state policy. This was announced on October 26 by Alexey Arestovich, a freelance adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine.

The servicemen worked out a joint landing from the IL-76MD aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces approximately 60 km from Cairo

Russian and Egyptian paratroopers performed group parachute jumps on Tuesday before the final stage of the Defenders of Friendship - 2021 exercises taking place near Cairo. The servicemen worked out a joint landing from the Il-76MD aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces approximately 60 km from the Egyptian capital.

American intelligence has warned that the terrorist group Al-Qaeda (an organization banned in the Russian Federation) may continue its criminal activities abroad in "a year or two", and the Islamic State (IS, an organization banned in the Russian Federation) in Afghanistan may take one year to do so. This was announced on Tuesday, October 26, by US Deputy Secretary of Defense for Political Affairs Colin Kohl, speaking in the US Senate.

It is strange that there are currently more disputes within NATO than NATO's struggle with the outside world, the Turkish author shares a common opinion. In his opinion, now it makes sense to create a NATO compatible with the new world conditions. To do this, first of all, Russia must also join NATO.

The Russian 201st military base in Tajikistan annually trains up to 1,000 junior specialists for the national armed forces. This was announced by the chief of staff of the compound, Colonel Yevgeny Okhrimenko.

The Afghan Foreign Ministry welcomes the words of Russian President Vladimir Putin about the possible exclusion of the Taliban movement (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation) from the list of terrorist organizations.

The third batch of additional international military aid worth $60 million from the US government for the needs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has arrived in Ukraine. It includes ammunition, anti-tank and precision weapons, medical equipment and others. This is the third batch from the USA in October.

The exercises involved almost 500 units of weapons, military and special equipment, including armored vehicles "Tiger" and "Typhoon"

TASS, October 25. The exercises of the units of the Eastern Military District (VVO), designed to counter terrorism, were held in 11 subjects of the Far East, more than 14 thousand military took part in them. This was reported on Monday by the press service of the VVO.

The North Atlantic Alliance should not be afraid of creating an army of the European Union, you just need to put up with it. This statement was made by the Minister of the Armed Forces of France, Florence Parly.

On October 25, Russian senator from Crimea Sergey Tsekov criticized the words of the adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Alexey Arestovich that Kiev could send missiles towards Moscow in the future.

Moscow expects to send humanitarian aid to Afghanistan this week, including medicines, Zamir Kabulov, special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Afghanistan, head of the second department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, told RIA Novosti.

During the visit, the commander of the Sri Lankan Ground Forces, Shavendra Silva, laid a wreath at the Grave of the Unknown Soldier at the Kremlin Wall

The Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces, Army General Oleg Salyukov, and the Acting Chief of the Defense Staff, Commander of the Sri Lankan Ground Forces, General Shavendra Silva, discussed joint combat training activities at a meeting in Moscow. This was reported to journalists on Monday in the Russian Defense Ministry.

The military exercises "Hoguk" ("Defense of the Fatherland") began on Monday in South Korea with the participation of three branches of the armed forces to work out their strategic interaction, the Yonhap news agency reported, citing the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) of the country's armed forces.

Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense Andrey Kartapolov visited as an observer a joint exercise with the Collective Rapid Reaction Forces of the CSTO "Interaction-2021" in the Republic of Tajikistan for the purpose of parliamentary monitoring of the military-political situation in the Central Asian region.

The speaker of the Ukrainian delegation in the Trilateral Contact Group, Aleksey Arestovich, apparently completely out of his mind, "threatened" the Russian president to send Ukrainian missiles to Moscow. So, on the air of the propaganda channel "Dom", he commented on Putin's statement about the presence of NATO in Ukraine.

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).

The preparation of the personnel of the combined Russian-Egyptian parachute unit for the active phase of the Defenders of Friendship-2021 exercise, which takes place several dozen kilometers from Cairo, has been completed, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on Monday.