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.
The complete wing of an Avic MA60 turboprop airliner became partly detached then pivoted on the fuselage when the aircraft ran on to grass on landing on May 10.
A small research effort reveals that Japanese defense ministry technologists believe a radical alternative to the fighter as an instrument of air control may soon be available.
Japan, challenged with a numerically superior Chinese fighter force, is re-examining the 1950s concept of exercising air control with low-performance aircraft firing high-performance missiles.
