Best post-MiG 21 single engined Soviet/Russian fighter or bomber?

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Well, that's where we must begin then, to make a better MiG-23. Start with the MiG-23MLD and proposed upgrades.
Any improvements to the MiG-23 will compete with the production of the MiG-29 for electronic warfare equipment or a helmet-mounted optical guidance system. For the USSR, any effort to improve the MiG-23 with the MiG-29 in service is just a waste of money. The entire MiG-23 program was initially unrealistic. Huge efforts were invested in mastering technologies, which as a result turned out to be unused. Perhaps the E-8 was a more reasonable way of fighter evolution. But the USSR had its own laws of "unnatural selection".
 

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