The boom and girly-flaps UUARSI option is not part of the FSTA requirement. Neither will the OzAF KC-30B have a centreline hose.
I vaguely recall some FSTA conference last century which ststed that the requirement was to support one major (cf GW1) and one minor (cf Malvinas) operation, plus routine AD and AAR training and 'CPT' such as Red Flag. I think the Bennyland Air Bridge was also part of the assumption.
We pointed out to the high-priced help that ther assumptions for 'call-back' of FSTAs off bucket-and-spading were a crock - every liitle Bliar war has always needed everything on Day One. They didn't like that - it didn't fit their cosy assumptions...
As for the Malvinas run - one 'bit of a bugger' is that the A330 has a wingspan 1 metre too big to fit in the Timmy hangar. Which means the de-icing had better be pretty good if the jet has to sit out in the open all the time... Perhaps that'll relax the Q tanker RS if the alternative is to de-ice it every hour?
Although an MPA-based A400M with a single CBT would be able to meet
all the in-theatre task need for 1312 Flt.