Varyag & Shapshonikov at G20

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Uninvited guests: Varyag & Shapshonikov, both Russian ships are cruising towards Brisbane in concert with the G20 forum. Two Australian frigates, the HMAS Parramatta and Stuart, are enroute to "flank and monitor" Russian activity.


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.

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