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The sights of Avalon Air Show 2025 day one [PHOTOS]

Here’s what the first day of the Avalon Air Show, located just outside of Melbourne, Australia, looked like.

Mar 25, 2025 - 14:32

The sights of Avalon Air Show 2025 day one [PHOTOS]

The Australian Roulettes fly acrobatics. (Michael Marrow/Breaking Defense)

AVALON AIR SHOW 2025 — Autumn may technically have begun in Australia, but locals here will tell you summer is stretching on. That was certainly the case for the first day of the Avalon Air Show, located just outside of Melbourne, where the Australian military and regional allies brought along their fair share of equipment, joined by industry vendors eager to show off their new tech.

Here are just some of the sights.

Smoke rises after an F-35 conducts a simulated close air support mission. This reporter initially thought a fire had broken out. (Michael Marrow/Breaking Defense)

Royal Australian Air Force, US Air Force and industry officials hold a ribbon cutting to inaugurate the start of the show. (Michael Marrow/Breaking Defense)

A US Air Force C-17 sits next to a Luftwaffe A400M on the tarmac at the Avalon Air Show. (Michael Marrow/Breaking Defense)

A shot of the busy show room floor, one of four halls for exhibitors at Avalon. (Michael Marrow/Breaking Defense)

A static display of the Royal Australian Air Force’s E-7 Wedgetail, recognizable for its distinctive “top hat” radar. (Michael Marrow/Breaking Defense)

A static display of an RAAF F-35, which appears to have some slight corrosion. (Michael Marrow/Breaking Defense)

A HIMARS system on display, shortly after the Australian government announced the first delivery of the rocket artillery launcher. (Michael Marrow/Breaking Defense)

A static display of the distinctive CH-47 Chinook, with a Blackhawk helicopter left of it. (Michael Marrow/Breaking Defense)

It may be an air show, but land systems, such as the Abrams tank at right, were welcome at Avalon too. (Michael Marrow/Breaking Defense)