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.
Lessor BOC Aviation has strengthened its presence in China by placing two Airbus A320-200s with the country’s largest budget carrier, Spring Airlines. Reflecting the rapid recovery in the Asian market, the Singapore-based lessor, owned by the Bank of China, had to bring forward two delivery positions to get the deal, since the aircraft it had previously been due to receive this year had already been placed.
The Indian military will spend $80 billion on acquisitions from 2011 to 2015, most of it for the army, according to Deloitte and the Confederation of Indian Industry in a study on the country’s defense market. The army will account for 53% of the spending, the air force 31% and the navy 16%, the authors project, basing their estimates on an analysis of official statements.
DECOY ORDER: BAE Systems has received a 12th order for Nulka hovering-rocket naval decoys from the Australian government. Production of an undisclosed number of rounds will run until 2013. Nulka, developed and made in Australia, is an active decoy designed to attract the attention of anti-ship missiles and lure them onto a harmless flight path by edging away from its launching ship.
