Originally Posted by
Winchweight
All the essential plumbing is present on all A400Ms, but the UK did not buy the AAR role fit items - pods, additional tanks etc, as they felt they already had sufficient capability with existing platforms, so fitted for, not with...
The UK has an exclusive contract with the Airtanker consortium to provide AAR using Airbus A330 so there is no chance for any other aeroplane to be used for the task.