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 latest concept design of Japan’s proposed indigenous fighter may have moved a little away from the bias toward long range and endurance over flight performance of the previous preliminary design.
Japan’s defense ministry and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries are working on bonding technology that would largely eliminate fasteners from aircraft structures and thereby greatly cut weight.
