Australia's first Joint Strike Fighters unveiled at Avalon Airshow

By David Wroe, National Security Correspondent
Updated March 3 2017 - 6:28pm, first published 6:12pm

They were eight years and a few minutes late, but just after 11.30am on Friday, the first two Joint Strike Fighters were unveiled to the Australian public.

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