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Levcons are out of question now for any fighter in dev now. Atleast for now. Closed coupled canards are the system design.
Yes, it is extremely unlikely. However, the N-LCA Mk1 with LEVCONs has been tested on the carrier and works. So while it is very unlikely, it cannot be completely ruled out.
The air force version is single engine and navy is twin engine. both have caranrds.
TEDBF may or may not have canards. We don't know as yet. It is an ADA design and concept studies were on-going.
The renderings of ORCA (viz. the IAF version of TEDBF) that we have seen so far have come from HAL, which is pro-actively trying to interest the IAF in a twin-engine Rafale class fighter after the single engine MWF which is a Mirage-2000 class fighter.