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 drawdown of flying hours for the F/A-18A/B Hornet in future years is in accordance with the planned transition to the F-35A Lightning,” Australia's defense department says.
