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.
Flight testing Avic’s Dark Sword supersonic combat drone may follow the appearance of an unverified photograph of the aircraft in the form of a full-scale prototype or mockup.
Japan’s aerospace industry association will press for an early start to development of an indigenous fighter if the government decides not to use a foreign design for the country’s next combat aircraft.
