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.
South Korea is moving toward buying 12 Lockheed Martin S-3 Vikings, ex-U.S. Navy aircraft that would form a second-tier force to boost the country’s anti-submarine capability.
Revealing the latest timetable, Avic said the first flight-test aircraft is nearing completion at the Zhuhai, China, base of its general aviation subsidiary Caiga.
