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.
Bell has made an unsolicited proposal to Australia to supply AH-1Z and UH-1Y helicopters in a program that would use funding earmarked for sustaining and buying smaller rotorcraft.
The Royal Australian Air Force looks likely to go ahead this year with fielding an interim Northrop Grumman-developed system that should be a big step toward a goal of high information integration across Australia’s armed services.
Australia is close to choosing between BAE Systems and Lockheed Martin to upgrade the Jindalee over-the-horizon radar system by implementing technology developed by the Defense Department.
