You are correct in the AoA limiter holding 25 AoA. In normal flight, you can sit there holding the stick with full aft pressure and it won't budge, nor will you ever hear tone, other than maybe the gear warning tone < 170 knots with some settling. You'll hear it more commonly going "over the top" without enough airspeed to do so. You can also exceed the limiter with certain configurations of external stores, and perhaps second most commonly, by "assaulting the limiters", i.e. max roll combined with max AoA and maybe a little yaw rate. In a really heinous version of the "too slow to go over the top" scenario, you can get the thing into a "deep stall" where the stabs don't have the authority to allow for recovery. It happens more like in the 50-60 AoA range, generally induced by getting stuck really nose high with 100 knots or less airspeed. In that case, simple physics have simply overcome the limiter. The scenario in the video is a little uncommon, i.e. tone at such high airspeed. With that being said, I believe the limiter has reduced values at high airspeed ~ something like 15 AoA up in the 500+ knot range, so not totally unreasonable to think he might have exceeded that by really "snatching" on the G's. Last thing I'll say is that some of this conjecture wrt the limiter is based on a Code One article Joe Bill Dryden wrote back in the early 1980's. Actual written data on it in the -1 is, based on my casual perusal last night, pretty limited in scope and doesn't really spell out the full extent of the FLCS laws (unlike the Hornet/Super Hornet NATOPS which I think does a bit better job). Anyway, I digress…..
