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.
Wealthy and well-armed Singapore tends to not to shirk at paying for expensive military equipment. That factor could help the Poseidon as it assesses patroller options.
Airbus is stepping up support for partner Indonesian Aerospace as the Asian state company struggles with late deliveries and a military customer dissatisfied with product support.