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 defense ministry is assessing bids from Thales, Raytheon and Elta to supply radars for the country’s nascent ballistic-missile defense system.
A nascent South Korean ballistic-missile defense program is gathering strength, with the defense ministry assessing bids from Thales, Raytheon and Elta to supply radars for the system. The defenses will at first rely on secondhand Lockheed Martin PAC-2 missiles as interceptors, but the ministry says it is looking at trading up to more effective weapons.
Hainan Airlines owner HNA Group is strengthening its position in the major port city Tianjin, while separately moving into the Indonesian domestic market. Grand China Express, the group’s Tianjin-based short-haul unit, will be renamed Tianjin Airlines as part of a deal under which the city government will become the regional carrier’s major shareholder.
