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.
BEIJING — Chinese space contractor CASC has taken a Bolivian order for a communications satellite based on the DFH-4 bus of subsidiary CAST. The TKSat-1 satellite will be fitted with 30 transponders and launched from the Xichang base in Sichuan by a Long March 3B or 3E rocket from another CASC subsidiary, CALT, according to China Great Wall Industry Corp., the group’s international sales agency.
Bradley Perrett (Beijing), Leithen Francis (Zhuhai)
Avicopter is studying a 10-ton helicopter and sees a possible opportunity to build another, smaller aircraft, as it works to become one of a small group of manufacturers with a full range of rotorcraft. A third rotorcraft under consideration, which would be built with Russian Helicopters, would have a gross weight of 30 tons, says Avicopter, the rotary-wing specialist subsidiary of Chinese aeronautics conglomerate Avic.
Japan is preparing the policy ground for joint development of combat aircraft, warships, and space- and cyber-warfare systems, with the launch of a study intended to build consensus on the issue. As the country inches toward an historic change in defense industrial policy, a study group will look at how Japan’s almost blanket ban on arms exports could be reviewed to help preserve its development and production base.
