ORAC - Yes, the facts are awkwardly at odds with the hyped "increase" story after Carter's memo, exactly as I called it nearly two months ago in response to a silly comment.
http://www.pprune.org/military-aviat...ml#post9215336
The fascinating question, of course, is "31 more than what"?
“To meet the expanding adversary fighter threat, we will procure 31 additional F-35C relative to the Navy POM submission (and 10 more than the PB-16 plan)".
So the answer is "31 more than a plan we haven't seen" which apparently contained a startling 21-jet cut relative to the PB16 (Presidential Budget, the one published at the beginning of the year).
Folks like Tourist need to start looking at things like this and figuring out who lives under a bridge and who does not.