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.
South Korea’s KF-X fighter program survived encounters with the national executive and legislature this week, but remains more politically controversial than ever.
Airbus forecasts LCH-LAH production extending until 2050 and amounting to 214 LAHs for the South Korean army and 300-400 for export customers, while about 100 LCHs will be sold domestically and 200-300 abroad.
China will confirm an expected order for 30 Airbus A330s during a visit to the country by German Chancellor Angela Merkel this week, industry sources say.
