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.
TOKYO — The Japanese defense ministry will decide on an engine for the UH-X utility helicopter within two or three months so manufacturer Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) can begin the detail design phase. The likely engine is the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) XTS2, a 940-kw (1,260-hp) derivative of the 660-kw TS1 turboshaft, itself an adaptation of MHI’s MG5 family, which was developed in 1987.
