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.
The Boeing E-7 Wedgetail airborne early warning and control aircraft, operational with the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) for only about two years, is already in line for upgrades, notably for its Northrop Grumman Mesa radar.
Korean Airlines, with backing from Airbus, has bid to develop South Korea’s KF-X indigenous fighter, presenting competition to the country’s leading combat aircraft company, Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI).
