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Old 2nd Aug 2010, 06:28
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You don't put a second engine into a fighter in case one of them fails! But single engined fighters have substantially more redundancy built into them and their ancilliaries.

Although the F-16 is the only modern single-engined fighter operated in the west built in any numbers, since the early 90s, the ratio of single vs twin/multi engined aircraft losses due to engine failures is at virtual parity.
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