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 will delay a decision scheduled for the fiscal year beginning in April 2018 on how to procure a replacement for its Mitsubishi Heavy Industries F-2 fighters, Reuters reports.
Japan’s defense technology organization is proposing a five-year research program for an electric laser for missile defense of ships and ground targets.
