Most turbojet aircraft are “limited by decree”.

No,no. The jet engines are limited, at high altitudes, by the inlet tempetrature, not by decree.
For exmple, the limit is 130 degrees C for F-4E and 427 degrees C for SR-71.

I don’t believe him because he’s full of crap.

Why do you think so?
He is American general and he certainly would have not said that if it had not been true.

Remember also that it was stated in the book “MIG Pilot”.

Like I said, people were stupid, correlating the maximum range of the missile with the test launches and assuming that the missiles were tested at that range.

Did you ever ask yourself, why the full supposed potential of AIM-47 missiles were never tested ?
And the public was led to believe that the YF-12 could hit targets at over 100 miles !!!

Non manual did claim that except that of the F-14D for a special reason. 😉

For the benefit of the others. That “speed reduction” is related to the inlet-system. The USN did so to reduce the life-time costs without limiting true performances. The new AAMs are no longer in need of an extra high launch speed behind Mach 1,6-1,8. See the design speed of all new fighters.
The F-14A was neither by the airframe nor the propusion system limited to Mach 2,4.

Sens, this is not the reason.
The F-14A manual also says the speed limit was 1.9 Mach.

Do you know that, by limiting the speed to below Mach 2, the other performance figures also are lowered. The acceleration in particular, which is very important to every fighter.

It is no wonder that general Boyd, americans top test fighter pilot, and TOP GUN instructor, said:
“The F-14 was underpowerd aerial truck. When it lose energy in dogfight it run out of options.”

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What makes you say that the Zaslon is more advanced than either of the American radars? I doubt if the electronics or processing power of the 1970s era Zaslon are an improvement on the 1960s era AWG-9. Just because the Zaslon has a PESA antenna doesn’t make it automatically any more capable, does it?

Of course it does.
Do you know something about phased array radars?

The Zaslon radar has such tremendous and unequalled capabilities, that any comparison with F-14 is meaningless.

It has 1 milisecond scann rate, versus 13 seconds for AWG-9 !!!
Track While Scann sector is 70 x 70 degrees for Mig31 and about 10 x 15degrees for F-14.
Do you know what does it mean? Difference is too big.
Because of such great tracking rate , it can effectively guide 4 missiles at once, at great distances, more than 200 km.

Not just Phoenix! How many kills did the R-73, R-27, R-23, or any other Soviet missile achieve in that war or any other conflict in the last 20 years?

How many opportunities they had compared to americans?
The R-60M was the better A-A close range missile than any comparable western missile, and R-73 was 20 years ahead of anything else in its class.

it is not allowed to fly faster than Mach 2.83.

Of course it is allowed. See what Indian Air force said.
Bear in mind that the 2.83 Mach is exactly 3000 km/h. A round figure set by decree.
A true performances could be seen from the Indian Air Force sources and Israelis.

Belenkov said his speed limits were M2.5 or M2.8, the latter in war times.

No,no. That was stated by John Barron in his book “Mig Pilot”.
What Belenko said we didn’t know.

As you can see, if you have this book, Barron say that Belenko say that the Mig-25 has 1200 km max range !!!!!

It is not true. As the Mig-25 pilot, Belenko would not say that nonsense.

The book is a hoax.

I guess if they had achieved more kills, the Navy would have ordered hundreds of F-14 more.

No, but it would be serving in active service for many years more.

The MiG-25 is the only Mach3-aircraft that is not allowed to fly Mach 3.
That is something you truly cannot find in the pathetic West.

Says who? John Barron in his false book Mig Pilot?