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.
Avic is making its first moves into the market for dedicated attack helicopters, developing an export version of the Z-19 attack helicopter that an official says could be delivered in 2017.
Both ships are of the size of the country’s first aircraft carrier, Liaoning, the report says. Liaoning was bought unfinished from Ukraine in 1998, completed at Dalian and commissioned in 2011.
Ballistic missile defense features prominently in Japan’s proposed military budget for its next fiscal year, with the defense ministry seeking to build one Aegis destroyer and upgrade two others for the role while preparing for production of the interceptor they will carry.
