#tcot #teaparty #union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot A Syrian Rebel Advance Off the Battlefield: A Longer-Lasting Battery for Missiles http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/26/world/middleeast/a-syrian-rebel-advance-off-the-battlefield-a-longer-lasting-rechargeable-battery-for-the-sa-7b-a-shoulder-fired-missile-system.html?_r=0 Rebels in Syria are designing rechargeable batteries for shoulder-fired antiaircraft missiles, a development that could make them more lethal against Syrian warplanes but that also carries potential risks to civilian aircraft, according to a rebel behind the new design and to Western analysts who have assessed his work. The batteries are matched to the SA-7b missile system, or Strela-2, an early variant of heat-seeking missile that originated in a Soviet design bureau in the late 1960s and has been reproduced in several countries, including China, North Korea and Pakistan...