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.
The Japanese government is under pressure from the country’s largest business association to ease its restrictions on arms exports so the country can join international projects. The association, Nippon Keidanren, argues that the country is becoming technologically isolated as the rising complexity and cost of defense equipment increasingly forces other countries to collaborate on its development.
Qantas and Boeing have brought forward delivery of Boeing 787s to the Australian airline by two years to 2012. The first 787s delivered to the group will be 787-8s, of which 15 are on order. Eight will arrive from mid-2012, and the other seven, along with 35 787-9s, will enter service from 2014. The carrier will allocate the first aircraft to its Jetstar low-cost subsidiary.
BEIJING — The Alenia Aermacchi M-346 has won Singapore’s advanced jet trainer competition, a South Korean news report suggests. Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) has failed in its bid to supply the T-50 to Singapore, reports the Yonhap news agency. Since M-346 was the only other competitor, the report implies that Alenia Aermacchi will get the contract to supply a 25-year training capability. Between 11 and 14 aircraft were expected to be needed to meet the requirement.
