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.
In theory, it may be a golden opportunity to develop a new helicopter, with an increasingly sophisticated Asian partner and a fat requirement for more than 200 aircraft to get the program going. In practice, there is probably not enough money to do more than update an existing aircraft.
South Korea will launch its first satellite with a synthetic aperture radar by year-end, with another observation spacecraft using an electro-optical sensor due to follow about six months later. Together they will bring the number of launches of locally built satellites to five, helping develop the country's nascent space technology. It has two domestically built satellites in orbit now.
