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.
BEIJING — Chinese national space contractor CASC has revealed a new medium-altitude, long-endurance UAV, the CH-4, which is primarily a civil aircraft, despite its exhibition at the Zhuhai air show this month toting bombs and surface-to-air missiles.
Eurocopter, the largest supplier to the Chinese civil helicopter market, expects the number of non-military rotorcraft in the country to more than triple by 2020.