The funny part is that Lockheed was involved early on with the A400M project, got fed up with the ‘design-by-committee-but-please-make-it-a-jobs-program-too’ so they bailed out, went home, and thoroughly modernized the C-130 instead. The C-130J-30 comes within a hair of all the capabilities of the larger A400M, and is going to be cheaper.
And it’s tail is still similar to the old Hughes Hercules.