BTW, what are the Yiddish looking characters
on the nose?
"Yiddish"!? Com'oooon, Taaay! lol. Don't tell me you've never seen Arabic numerals before?
BTW, here's another fun fact not too many actually know. If you look at that last set of pics and that glowing afterburner, those aircraft are the 2nd to last order and are Block 40s. What clearly distinguishes them from the block 52s is 3 things. The 52s have the IFF sensors on the top of the noses in front of the cockpit, they have that extended tail base where the drag chute comes out and specifically the Egyptian block 40's F-16s have the F110-GE-129 engines by General Electric, while the block 52's have the Pratt & Whitney F100-PW-229.
You can see the difference is clear as day in the turkey feathers of the nozzles. The GE ones on the block 40s in that pic have that zig-zag shape to the turkey feathers, a very distinct, gun-metal/metallic grey shine to them and also have a very slight bulbous shape to them.
While the newer, bock 52's in those above pics landing in Portugal have the PW engines with the much larger and more distinct silver, base at the joint with the fuselage, the straighter turkey feathers and they're more blackish than that gun-metal grey color of the GE's.
Not sure why they switched to the PW engines on the 52s because there was a huge competition between PW and GE to win the contract for the fleet of block 40 orders and when they made the presentation to the EAF, Egyptians chose the GE because it's well know in the F-16 circuit that the GE is hands down and better engine, much more responsive, less prone to failures and the maintenance crews love working with the GEs more so than the PWs. They also have a slightly higher thrust. 2/3 of all the American F-16s operate GE engines while the other 1/3 are PWs.
So it's really interesting that the EAF ended up with the PW in this last batch of 52s.
Also, the other way you can tell if an F-16 has a GE or a PW engine is basically in the block designation. If the block number ends in (0), then it's a General Electric engine and if it ends in a (2), it's a Pratt & Whitney. Hence the EAF block 40s and 52s. Might also be the reason why the Turks chose the block 50 and not 52 specifically for the engine which is why I'm surprised with this choice for the EAF. If they really liked the General Electric engine, they should've ordered the block 50s and not the 52s and they would've also had commonalty among the fleet.