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.
Indonesia intends to acquire 180 Sukhoi Flankers and also to buy Lockheed Martin F-16s, says Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro, setting out plans for a massive expansion of the Southeast Asian country’s air-combat force. The announcement may bolster air-force equipment plans of Indonesia’s neighbors, depending on whether they expect the country’s future fighter fleet will really meet the government’s ambitions.
South Korea is backing studies for a 90-seat turboprop airliner, identified as a strategic program for its aerospace industry, while China’s Avic Aircraft separately negotiates with engine makers for its proposed 76-seat propliner. The two Asian aircraft would become competitors, and perhaps successors, to the Bombardier Q400 and ATR 72.
The South Korean government is backing studies for a 90-seat turboprop airliner, identified as a strategic program for its aerospace industry, while China’s Avic Aircraft separately negotiates with engine makers for its proposed 76-seat propliner. The two Asian aircraft would become close competitors, and perhaps successors, to the Bombardier Q400 and ATR 72.
