CLW Zhongke and Guide-Infrared Puzhou Sign Low-Altitude Partnership
When a special-vehicle maker and a drone major shake hands, the product is neither a truck nor a drone — it is a new category: a mobile command layer for the low-altitude economy.
The moment of signing: CLW’s Zhongke Intelligent and Puzhou Technology (a Guide Infrared subsidiary) formalised their partnership at the latter’s Wuhan campus on December 11.
Puzhou brings folding airframes, binocular obstacle avoidance and long-endurance flight controls; Zhongke Intelligent brings what almost nobody else has at scale — purpose-engineered vehicle platforms that carry, launch, recover and command those drones in the field. The stated goal: one seamless vehicle + AI + aircraft chain that removes the single-equipment limits emergency crews hit every day.
Proof it is not talk: the CLW mobile drone operation platform truck, one of three mass-produced drone-vehicle models from Zhongke Intelligent.
The partnership builds on hardware already shipping. CLW’s drone-vehicle trilogy — the mobile operation platform, the laser countermeasure truck (unit value around RMB 7 million) and the forward communication-command truck (around RMB 5 million) — is in serial production and, per the company, out-selling internal forecasts at home and abroad.
CLW Group chairman Cheng Aluo congratulated the signing, calling cross-domain fusion the fastest route to new-quality productive forces.
Three tracks lie ahead: integrating Puzhou’s infrared payloads with onboard vehicle control into true vehicle-aircraft units; fielding rapid-deployment packages for emergency rescue, power-line patrol and logistics delivery; and pooling manufacturing to standardise components and pull costs down.
Leadership of both groups witness the agreement, flanked by optics partner Xuanyuan Intelligent Driving.
The roadmap is dated: first emergency-equipment and drone adaptation batches certified before end-2026 with standardised vehicle-mounted hangar quick-launch configurations; three to five flagship scenarios across central China within three years. A truck-and-drone marriage with an engineering schedule attached.
The full house at Guide Infrared campus: engineering teams from both sides mapped the integration backlog after the ceremony.
Adapted from CLW Group official news coverage, December 2025.