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.
Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) has chosen the Airbus H155 as the basis for LCH-LAH civil and military helicopter, adding South Korean production of more than 200 units to a program that the European manufacturer is replacing.
Chinese rocket builder CALT has assembled the airframe of the first Long March 5, a new type of space launcher that will loft the country’s heaviest loads into space.