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.
China's DF-21D anti-ship ballistic missile system presents one of the world's most decisive challenges in the field of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), with potentially far-reaching consequences for international affairs. If China can make the missile system work, it could shift the balance of power in East Asia, causing the many countries looking warily at China's growing military clout to wonder how far they can rely on the U.S. to counterbalance the regional giant.
On the western side of the Pacific Ocean, the military putting perhaps the most emphasis on intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) is Australia's. And although the Australian Defense Force's efforts in ISR and command and communication have been criticized as vigorous but uncoordinated, there are signs that it is pulling together more integrated information-gathering and distribution systems.
BEIJING — Chinese missile and space group Casic is claiming significant but unspecified advances in titanium-aluminum intermetallics, a form of metallurgy used in gas turbines, such as aircraft engines. The No. 159 factory attached to the state company’s Third Institute began researching the smelting and casting of titanium-aluminum intermetallic compounds at the beginning of the year, Casic says in a statement.
