Cameron Curtis

3 weeks ago | sofrep.com | Cameron Curtis

This will be a short article. In it, I will show how a single clause in the US-Ukraine minerals agreement could lose the US taxpayer billions of dollars. The loss will occur in a manner that does not become evident for many years. This is annoying because one does not need a PhD in mathematical finance to see it. And yet… no one has pointed it out. Remember, Zelensky first proposed this deal early in 2024, well before the election. Ukraine was losing and US support was waning.

1 month ago | sofrep.com | Cameron Curtis |Don Bolduc

The World Record Sniper KillFor a detailed analysis of the Mosul world record shot, see The Perfect Long-Range Kill and Science of the Long-Range Kill. The first deals with holdover, the second with stability and spin drift. This article continues with the Coriolis adjustment. In 2017, a pair of Canadian JTF2 sniper teams was operating from a firing position on the east bank of the Tigris River on the north side of Mosul.

1 month ago | sofrep.com | Cameron Curtis |Don Bolduc

The Abrams’ Smoothbore SabotThe American M1 Abrams is equipped with a 120mm smoothbore cannon. It fires armor-piercing discarding sabots with depleted uranium penetrators. This ammunition kills by penetrating enemy armor with kinetic energy. The penetrator is like a super-hard bolt that drills a hole in the enemy tank purely by the velocity and energy with which it arrives. The depleted uranium has an incendiary effect that sets fire to anything flammable inside the target.

1 month ago | sofrep.com | Cameron Curtis

US Hands Over Rzeszów to PolandIn January, 2022, Rzeszów, Poland had only one claim to distinction. It was situated within 50 km of the Ukrainian border and it had a runway long enough to land American C-17 Globemaster III aircraft. When Russia invaded Ukraine in February, 2022, Rzeszów acquired significance beyond its aspirations. It became the key NATO supply hub, a funnel for shipping billions of dollars worth of military equipment to the Kiev regime. No longer.

1 month ago | sofrep.com | Cameron Curtis

The Puzzle of the BridgesThe Russians have not blown the bridges. The bridges over the Dnieper River. For three years, they have been fighting a war of attrition in the east. They have accumulated forces and ground the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) down. They have rocketed, droned, and shelled AFU supply nodes and destroyed power generation facilities. But they have not blown the bridges. The bridges carry supplies from the Polish border in western Ukraine to the contact line in the east.