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.
Japan could buy Boeing F-15E Eagles and build them domestically while awaiting the arrival of the Lockheed Martin F-35, as an alternative to purchasing the F-22 Raptor, a senior Pentagon official suggests.
Asian aircraft projects are multiplying at a rate that can only alarm industrialists in Europe and the Americas who like to think of their regions as the real home of aviation technology.
Singapore Technologies Aerospace is planning a components repair facility in China as its next move in a strategy to serve the country’s potentially enormous budget-airline sector. The company is taking a fairly long view, since the highly regulated Chinese market now has few budget airlines, and rules issued during the past year have made starting them harder.
