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 Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC) has pushed back its target for certification of the C919 airliner from 2020 to 2021, following continued delays in flight testing.
Hanwha is offering a road-mobile variant of the KTSSM for export, even before the South Korean army deploys the short-range ballistic missile next year.
Japan has lifted the grounding order on its Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning force that had been in place since immediately after one of the fighters crashed on April 9.
