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.
AVALON, Australia — If the Pentagon is given flexibility in apportioning the “sequestration” budget cuts slated to start in March, the U.S. Air Force’s F-35 program manager, Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan, says he will reduce production numbers and preserve flight testing activities. Last week, Air Force Secretary Michael Donley said up to three of 22 Air Force F-35As could be sliced from the fiscal 2013 buy if sequestration takes effect March 1, as scheduled.
BEIJING — Pratt & Whitney is working with IHI Corp. to determine how much of the F135 fighter engine can be built in Japan for local requirements. The U.S. manufacturer expects to go through the same process with Samsung Techwin in South Korea should that country follow Japan in ordering the fighter that the F135 powers, the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning, says Bennett Croswell, president of Pratt & Whitney’s military engine division.
