Since the C-130 was retired, the A400 now takes on all the tactical low level stuff the C-130 used to do. Well, not all - the C-17 does some of it, but it's so much larger that it's impractical for much of it. Even the A400 is too large for most of what the Army want to do, which makes it ridiculous that they just got rid of the best aeroplane for the job! But, put simply, there's nothing smaller in the inventory that can do it, so it has to be the A400. The crews love it, of course, but they loved it more in the Herc!