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.
Australia will consider accelerated replacement of its Airbus Tigers after auditors questioned a planned sustainment upgrade for the unreliable attack helicopters, even though they have been fully operational for only five months.