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.
Japan has chosen the Lockheed Martin Long Range Discrimination Radar over the rival Raytheon SPY-6 as the sensor for the country's Aegis Ashore ballistic missile defense program.