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.
Japan’s defense ministry proposes in its fiscal 2016 budget to place money-saving multiyear orders for Sikorsky H-60 helicopters, to be built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries under license, and imported Bell Boeing MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor transports.
Deliveries of Royal Australian Navy MH-60R helicopters from Sikorsky and Lockheed Martin are running ahead of schedule, because U.S. budget-control measures are forcing delays in acquisition for the U.S. Navy.
Comac expects its first aircraft type—the ARJ21 regional jet—to enter service in February, more than a year after receiving airworthiness certification.
