You should all be emailing BBC and newspaper editors urging them to recruit more specialist defence correspondents, and give big pay rises to those they already have.
Thanks to Ark's crew who took time to show a few of us around this morning.
I met a real gem of an '82 veteran Sea Harrier pilot, whom I'm sure many of you will know. Now flies for Branson. Was whisked off to Hermes from Yeovilton in '82 without having finished his training, and came back with five (I think he said) kills.
Told us a great story about the Heath-Robinson contraption they rigged up on the way south to dispense chaff from SHARs which didn't have chaff dispensers, to defeat Mirage's radar-guided missiles.
For those who weren't there at the time, think chaff tucked into air brake and bits of string flapping around in the airstream, which snapped at the appropriate moment when air brake was deployed to fling out chaff. Somehow, it worked.
With equipment like that how did we win?
With ingenuity like that, how could we lose?
To those who were there 25 years ago, I salute you all.