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.
Japan’s defense technology organization is proposing a five-year research program for an electric laser for missile defense of ships and ground targets.
The major supplier to China’s space program says it is conducting tests in preparation for space launches from a ship starting next year and also plans to fly a spaceplane around 2020.
