Bradley Perrett covered China, Japan, South Korea and Australia. He is a Mandarin-speaking Australian.
Before joining Aviation Week in 2006 he was a macroeconomics, politics and aerospace journalist with Reuters. Perrett holds a bachelor’s degree in law from Macquarie University, Sydney. He left Aviation Week in 2020.
BEIJING — The launch of a Japanese radar satellite is to be followed by a second in 2012-13, as the country builds up its space-based reconnaissance capability.
BEIJING—The frames of new hangars keep rising, and plenty more are on the drawing board as China's march into heavy airframe maintenance continues unabated.
Australia will proceed with a $650 million radar upgrade of all its Anzac-class frigates, which is designed to improve their self-defense capabilities and expected to boost the efforts of manufacturer CEA Technologies and partner Northrop Grumman to export the system. CEA’s active, electronically scanned array radars will be fitted on the ships, which entered service between 1996 and 2006, with modest sensor and weapons adjustments.
