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.
Introduction of Japan’s new airlifter into service is greatly boosting capacity, because the type is replacing the much smaller C-1. A proposed civil version has been dropped, however.
Development of the Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) C-2 airlifter is complete, 16 years after program launch, says the Japanese defense ministry, declaring the type fit for service.
