21 round Rolling Airframe Missile launcher. Image credit Darkone via Wikipedia.
Since RAM is going on the FF(X) and could easily go on either the National Security Cutters and the Offshore Patrol Cutters, Thought I would pass along this short article about the system.
The Colombian Navy took delivery of a new offshore patrol vessel (OPV) on Saturday, January 31.
The future ARC 24 de Julio is the lead ship of a new class of OPVs to be built by Colombian shipyard Cotecmar.
It is a pretty typical OPV, a bit larger than a WMEC270:
A poster at the Pentagon, Dec. 12, 2025, lets employees know that a new artificial intelligence tool is available to use at the War Department, and that employees are highly encouraged to use it. (Credit: C. Todd Lopez, DOW)
“Almost two months after the Pentagon deployed GenAI.mil on government desktops across its sprawling workforce, all but one of the military services have formally declared the asset to be their teams’ AI platform of choice.
“In response to questions from DefenseScoop on Monday, a Pentagon official said that there have been “1.1 million unique users” on GenAI.mil to date.”
Guess which armed service is not using this particular AI tool?
Not sure I would want a subordinate to rely too much on AI, but it is sure to be used. My limited experience is that AI tells me something I would have found by googling the question but it doesn’t give me the source of the information so I have less confidence.
Of course I have no experience with GenAI.mil, maybe it is better.
I am also uncomfortable with having Secretary Hegseth standing in for Uncle Sam. Are they going to take down the posters when we get a new Secretary? The poster would be inappropriate for use by the Coast Guard.
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