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.
Australia appears to be delaying major spending on its forthcoming frigate program, potentially freeing up more than $2 billion for other programs early next decade.
A range of 5,500 km would reach the western edge of Alaska and would cover all of East Asia, including the far west of China, with Australia just out of reach
