Russia already has an 80 year history of taking wildly diverse and frankly oddball aircraft designs and turning them into things that actually fly. Anyone who t

Russia already has an 80 year history of taking wildly diverse and frankly oddball aircraft designs and turning them into things that actually fly. Anyone who thinks that them partnering with a Chinese company can’t build a widebody isn’t paying attention. Well that's changing the goalposts just a bit. It's likely that the Chinese can churn out a widebody, but Comac couldn't even pull off a warmed over DC-9. They've got less experience than any of the Russian companies and it's pretty much a given at this point that they won't be successful.