I wasn’t here to experience that myself, but the people who were when the carmakers of the world started making weapons in the 1930s and 1940s must have felt a degree of unease comparable to what I am feeling now, when I learned French carmaker Renault will do the same in our day and time.

    

As I am writing this, the French capital Paris is host to the world's largest international land and air defense and security trade exhibition, Eurosatory, so everyone who's anyone is there presenting stuff and trying to make deals.

 

So are French defense contractor Thales and carmaker Renault, who joined forces to present earlier this week something called the 4 Troop prototype, a Rafale-based contraption equipped with all it needs to be a sort of drone mothership.