Russian military instructors are in Syria giving government forces a training course on how to use new air defences, the mobile Strela-2 surface-to-air missile system. Russian state-controlled outlet Russia Today (RT) reported on Tuesday that Russian trainers were teaching Syrian air defence units how to use the Man-Portable Air Defence (MANPAD) system “as quickly as possible.” The outlet went on to say that, typically, training for this system takes up to six months, but a “special training program” had been developed to teach the Syrians in just 15 days. Strela-2 missiles are an air-defence …