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Who said angled stealth planform shaping kills lift but curved body doesn't??????If we stealthify the design( still a twin engine, close coupled canard delta wing design) of tedbf and put an iwb( single one Like amca with no swb), how good of a stealth jet can it become while still retaining lots of its advantages in lift to weight to compactness ratio that it's rafale like design provides.
Since say 1950 in just 75 years we have NOT reached the dead end & the zenith of naval jet design with Rafale. Every naval jet doesnt have to be like Rafale or a delta-canard.
But still if we search for "stealth rafale" then we get come good conceptual CADs:



But the above concept is an inflated stealth Rafale, as big as F-22 or YF-23.
Just like France skipped 5gen with FCAS/SCAF & surprised the world, it can surprise again with stealth naval jet any time. Time will tell soon.