The preferred MiG aircraft would have been the MiG-25, better legs, better radar and better armament. I wonder whether it was ever offered during the Yeltsin era?
Offered to who? The RAF? Why on earth would the Russians have considered offering the MiG-25 to the UK, and why would the RAF have considered buying an already 30-year old design at the time Yeltsin came into power that was intended for one purpose - to bring down the SR-71 - for which it had already proven itself to be wholly inadequate and which was a mission the RAF clearly had no need of? So many questions...