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Also makes the 'you dont need a twin engined aircraft anymore because modern engineering is so advanced!' argument a little awkward. It's a slightly different issue in this case. An F-35 powered by two F135 engines would just have double the potential for an engine failure, so paradoxically a single-engined F-35 actually is actually less likely to go tech right now...
And if you have a blade rubbing incident, that results in blade separation, fire and parts departing the engine as it looks like the F-35A at Eglin did, the second engine may not save your bacon... as the saying goes, the second engine has enough power to get you to the scene of the crash....