Sir, fleet-defence against what ?
Land-based threats, airborne threats or sea-based/sub-surface combatants ? As of now, it primarily does CAP or anti-shipping ?
Basically, is it used in more in A-A config payload or A-G/A-S config payload ?
Was Rafale-M even a distant possibility with IAC-1 which leverages STOBAR ( ski-jump like INS VIkramaditya, it is. right ? ) instead of CATOBAR that Charles De Gaulle uses...
IAC-2 could be with CATOBAR, so all options still open...
Not sure even decision-makers in IN are still interested...