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.
Chinese commercial aircraft maker Comac has begun volume production of the ARJ21 regional jet, aiming to deliver five of the aircraft next year. A further 10 will follow in 2011 and 15 in 2012, the company says.
SUBMARINE BUY: Indonesia plans to buy a Russian submarine, the first of three that a senior official says the western Pacific country needs. Yusron Ihza, deputy chief of an Indonesian House of Representatives commission, says he has inspected several “submarine factories” in Moscow. It isn’t clear exactly what plants these were. The Russian capital is well inland. The Indonesian purchase will be made in stages, Yusron says.
South Korea is laying the ground-work for a more independent combat aircraft capability by launching a program for a domestically developed air-combat model and associated simulators.
