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.
Avic is planning an unusually high service ceiling of 5,700 meters (18,700 ft.) for the Advanced Heavy Lifter (AHL) helicopter proposed for joint development with Russian Helicopters.
Avic is making its first moves into the market for dedicated attack helicopters, developing an export version of the Z-19 attack helicopter that an official says could be delivered in 2017.
Both ships are of the size of the country’s first aircraft carrier, Liaoning, the report says. Liaoning was bought unfinished from Ukraine in 1998, completed at Dalian and commissioned in 2011.
