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Jet planes and bird strikes

I was reading an article about a United Airlines jet today, that had an engine flame out after ingesting a bird while taking off from O'hare. Shouldn't those engines be designed by now so that a bird strike won't really affect them?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/united-airlines-flight-emergency-bird-strike-plane-chicago-ohare-airport/
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I think the fan blades themselves are surprisingly resilient, as they've test fired frozen turkeys into engines as large as the GE 90, running on a test stand.

The flame-out situation seems to occur when ingested into the combustion chamber, rather than being shredded in the by-pass section. Melting the components.
The case with the miracle on the Hudson strike.

With all we've accomplished --windshear detection, EVS Head up displays for weather approaches using SWIR technology, etc; surely flameout incidents can be solved.
Whether by electronic blocks-as some have suggested, or a reengineering of the nacelle.