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.
An April 23 story misstated the officially quoted range of a cruise missile that the South Korean defense ministry says it has deployed. The ministry says its range is more than 1,000 km (620 mi.).
Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways is looking to cut spending and is warning staff it will have to “take concerted action” if weakness in passenger demand persists. Reducing the carrier’s flight schedule and parking aircraft are possibilities, says CEO John Slosar, a month after the airline said its business was under pressure. Since then “the situation has, if anything, worsened,” Slosar tells staff in a company newsletter.
BEIJING — South Korea has announced the deployment of two types of surface-to-surface weapons, one a cruise missile and the other ballistic. The Tomahawk-like cruise missile, which must be the previously reported Hyunmu 3C, has world-class precision, good enough to fly through a window, says Maj. Gen. Shin Won-sik, director general of planning at the defense ministry, who did not name either weapon. Its range is 1,500 km (930 mi.), he says.
