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.
The South Korean government will press ahead with the KF-X fighter and KAH attack helicopter programs, despite parliamentary opposition, under a national aerospace industry development plan. The government has decided that the KAH should be a new aircraft, not a derivative of the Surion utility helicopter of Korean Aerospace Industries. A civil derivative of either the KAH or Surion also will be delivered.
Stepping up its push to become a leading player in global aerospace, South Korea proposes to build a 90-seat turboprop under an industry development plan that also seeks to press ahead with the KF-X fighter and KAH attack helicopter programs. The 2010-19 plan aims at raising South Korean aerospace turnover tenfold, making the country one of the top seven in the global industry, up from 16th place now.
BEIJING — China has launched a third satellite for its planned Compass navigation and positioning system, aiming for initial operations to begin in 2012. The satellite, launched by a Long March 3C rocket, is one of five that are planned for geostationary orbit. They will work with 30 other satellites in low orbits to create a rival to the U.S. Global Positioning System, the European Union’s Galileo and Russia’s Glonass.
