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.
Some of this advanced—but unrealized—capability that Japan is seeking could come from the radar that will detect and track targets and guide interceptors to them.
The Japanese defense ministry has penciled in the purchase of naval intelligence-gathering aircraft for the five-year defense program that will begin next year.
