Well done TD, Good article. I think this makes you the resident AD expert on PRuNe now! I had a hand in some of the more modern stuff described in your article.
I hope that the A400M becomes capable of doing some of these things quite quickly. As I understand the French have the lead on things stores dropping an the Turks personnel. In the early days MSP was on the list we called Exhibit A. I am not sure how/when it fell off. It was probably about the time they were going through a weight saving exercise and could not / would not beef up the rollers and floor to take the loads over two tracks of roller. Due to the airbags four track roller as used by Type V was not appropriate. The initial rollers proposed would have melted at the weights and extraction speeds associated with what we called reefed mains extraction. the Electronic X locks would never have been certified to the required safety target( again with Reefed mains extraction). UK was the only partner with this requirement.