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.
Boeing’s Airpower Teaming System (ATS) escort-drone program is in part an answer to China’s attempts at threatening valuable and vulnerable support aircraft behind enemy fighters.
