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 will decide next decade whether to replace or modernize its 22 Airbus Tiger attack helicopters, which are only now moving toward full operational status 14 years after they were ordered.