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 clear challenge for China in using aircraft carriers in war is that they must be protected against submarine attack. The navy has long been weak in this area.
South Korea's Agency for Defense Development plans to build an apparently full-scale mockup of its proposed stealthy design, for assessment of radar cross-section, and eight sub-scale test aircraft.
South Korea’s Agency for Defense Development (ADD) has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for development of a multi-band radar-absorbing structure for a mockup of an unmanned strike aircraft that has been proposed for service beginning in 2030.
