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 has moved forward construction of its next frigate class by three years to 2020 and confirmed its plan to maintain a permanent naval construction industry fed with continuous orders.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has begun final assembly of the last of seven airframes that will be used in the main certification program for the Mitsubishi Aircraft MRJ regional jet.
Chinese engineers have begun the final series of firing tests of the propulsion system of the Long March 5 heavy space launcher, an evaluation process the manufacturer describes as unusually complex.
