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.
In choosing a site for the $1.1 billion system, vital for defense against North Korean weapons of mass destruction, Japanese officials used a ruler, protractor and Google Earth pictures to determine minimum elevation angles available for radars.
