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.
Saab says it began testing a gallium-nitride fighter radar more than a year ago and has verified that the sensor is ready for production, although the complete system has not flown.
The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) is moving to partially marketize the runway slot-allocation process, which would replace a system based upon purely administrative allocation that officials and airlines have repeatedly corrupted with bribes.