Chen Chuanren is the Southeast Asia and China Editor for the Aviation Week Network’s (AWN) Air Transport World (ATW) and the Asia-Pacific Defense Correspondent for AWN, joining the team in 2017.
Prior joining AWN, Chuanren was a regular serviceman in the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) Air Defense and Operations Command. He now serves the RSAF Air Force Information Center as a reservist. He holds a Bachelor of Mass Communications as well as a Diploma in Mechatronics (Aerospace).
Japan’s All Nippon Helicopter has become the world’s first operator of the Airbus Helicopters H160, with the first aircraft handed over from Airbus’ facility in Kobe, Japan.
The Indian Defense Research and Development Organization test fired its Vertical Launch—Short Range Surface to Air Missile and an air-launched BrahMos cruise missile on two successive days.