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), the intended prime contractor, may select between the two of them as early as the first quarter of 2015, but the choice will need approval from the defense ministry. The candidate base designs are the Airbus EC155 B1 and the AgustaWestland AW169.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) has teamed with AgustaWestland in offering the AW101, while Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Sikorsky propose a variant of the H-60.
