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 state space industrial group Casc will begin testing a demonstrator methane-burning rocket engine using the expander configuration in November.
Japan has decided to develop a new fighter, preferably with a foreign partner, rejecting the alternative of buying aircraft of existing but improved designs from British or U.S. companies, the Mainichi newspaper said.