The Varyag is Russia's Pacific flagship: a . Very mean looking with her 16x Anti Ship Missile tubes loaded with . These missiles outrange anything in the Australian arsenal; land, sea or air.

And the Marshal Shapshonikov is a .

Along with Varyag and Shaposhnikov are auxiliaries Fotiy Krylov (a tug) And Boris Butoma ().
HMAS Parramatta (FFH 154) and HMAS Stuart (FFH 153) are both .
How to defeat ? Cruise around it. Russian warships circumnavigated around Papua New Guinea to take up their current poise in international waters off of Australia's eastern coast.
