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.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries is considering a joint venture with a foreign aerospace company to build and support a minimum-change civil version of its XC-2 airlifter, the YCX.
A clear trend toward regulatory reform is promoting Indian business aviation, leaving the industry increasingly focused on other obstacles to its growth, notably infrastructure.
India looks like it is failing in one of the key objectives of its defense industrial policy—its desire to bring advanced Western technology into domestic-foreign joint ventures on its own territory.
