CLW Drone Laser Countermeasure Truck Rolls Into Series Production
Low, slow and small: the drones that slip past conventional air defence now face a purpose-built adversary — a 6x6 mobile laser countermeasure truck that entered series production at CLW in December.
The CLW drone laser countermeasure vehicle on its 6x6 hybrid chassis: roof sensor mast with EO/IR turret in travelling position.
Detection comes first. The truck fuses radar early warning, electro-optical tracking and radio-frequency sniffing into a 360-degree watch circle: target identification out to 3–8 km, false-alarm rate below 0.01 percent, and an AI classifier that sorts 11 drone types — bird-sized micro platforms and swarms included — locking trajectories within milliseconds.
Close view of the mission deck: broadband jamming antenna array beside the hard-kill laser head.
The countermeasure stack is dual-mode. A full-band jammer covering 2.4–6 GHz severs control and navigation links in about one second, forcing return-to-home or hover. When soft kill is not enough, a 10–30 kW-class laser melts airframes at 800 m and precision-strikes critical components inside 1,000 m, with adaptive beam control compensating atmospheric turbulence — at roughly one-thousandth the per-intercept cost of kinetic or net-based means.
Mobility is the other half of the story: independent power generation lets the truck hold station for 72 hours, from −40 to +60 Celsius.
The 6x6 hybrid drive stays street-legal for city escort duty yet sure-footed on rough border ground. Modular bodywork reconfigures the same truck for VVIP and event security, airport and nuclear-plant perimeters, or forward base defence. After two field seasons, the platform is off the drawing board and onto the production line — with export interest following fast.
Adapted from CLW Group official news coverage, December 2025.