Apparently the two countries have made their peace. Russia was miffed at export variants of Chinese copies of Russian products including fighter jets and had lowered military support to China.
I would attribute this to the very successful marketing campaign conducted by Airbus a few years ago.
A380, for me, however don’t match up to the hype because of the basic airstrip / run way changes required to support these birds.
This automatically makes it non-viable in a cargo / military / disaster relief role and would be unable to land in many of the older airports around the world.
I know. Below is what Wikipedia says about this: On 4 November 2010, Qantas Flight 32, registration VH-OQA (MSN0014), suffered a significant engine failure[211] en route from Singapore to Sydney and was forced to return to Singapore Changi Airport to land. There were no injuries to passengers or crew.[212][213] Parts of the engine nacelle fell onto the Indonesian island of Batam.[214] Later that day, Qantas announced that their entire A380 fleet would be grounded until the conclusion of an internal investigation taken in conjunction with the engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce plc.
This is getting interesting. The chronology of events over the past few days:
.. Israel announces help for Russian UAV efforts .. Russia delivers cruise missiles to Syria .. Russia cancels air defense missiles supply to Iran .. Israel cancels UAV assistance
These are advanced cruise missiles that can be (and have been) modified for more than just "anti ship" capabilities. These will definitely increase Syrian offensive capability.