The article discusses modern approaches to anthropometric research. The article presents the current trends in the physical development of young people of military age in the context of epochal variability (secular trend). It has been established that the normative documents regulating anthropometric research need significant processing in accordance with the realities of the time. At the same time, new technologies for studying anthropometric indicators have appeared in recent years, which, with the help of digital visualization, make it possible to perform not only an assessment of linear and projected body sizes in a short time, but also to build computer models of the human body. To solve these problems, it is proposed to use the Bodiscanner 3D Bio Kinect device and its subsequent adaptation for conducting anthropometric studies in the interests of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.