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.
Rockwell Collins wants to reproduce its joint-venture strategy in new business opportunities with Chinese industry, and views its new Tianjin flight-simulator partnership as a prototype. Opportunities should be created by new and upgraded Chinese civil aircraft, resulting in local development and production before turning to the international market, says Colin Mahoney, senior vice president of Rockwell Collins’s international business.
BEIJING — The first of Australia’s two planned Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) assault ships is due to begin sea trials within a few weeks, as prime contractor BAE Systems prepares to take delivery of the hull of the second unit.
BEIJING — Japan is considering building at least one more amphibious landing ship, with the aim of defending remote islands and the East China Sea, according to local media. The design is very likely to be much larger than that of the three, 14,000-ton Osumi Class amphibious ships that the Japanese navy now has in service.
