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 Japanese defense ministry has penciled in the purchase of naval intelligence-gathering aircraft for the five-year defense program that will begin next year.
Chinese space industry group Casc has test fired a space-launcher booster that it says has the greatest thrust of any solid-propellant motor in the country.
