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.
A new ground-to-ship missile, a technology development program leading to a pilotless fighter demonstrator in the 2030s and maybe Boeing F-15 Eagle upgrades are among programs from the imminent Japanese defense budget request leaked to media.
China has successfully test fired a large solid-propellant rocket motor that the manufacturer says could be used in a super-heavy launcher for manned Moon landings.
