Plasan

Plasan is the principal Israeli supplier of vehicle armor solutions globally — armor packages on US military vehicles, UK platforms, Australian platforms, and multiple international customer programs. The company is the structural example of the second-tier Israeli defense industrial base operating at international commercial scale.

Plasan is one of the most commercially scaled Israeli defense industrial counterparties outside the three primes. The company specializes in vehicle armor solutions across military and security-vehicle applications, with a customer base spanning the US military, the UK, Germany, Australia, the Netherlands, Israeli industry, and adjacent international customers.

The company's structural significance is its position as the Israeli reference standard for armor and survivability solutions across the international armored vehicle market. The Oshkosh M-ATV program — the US military's principal Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain Vehicle — uses Plasan-supplied armor packages across multiple variants. Adjacent US armored vehicle programs, the broader MRAP family, and multiple international customer programs use Plasan armor as the structural survivability layer.

For Defense pillar coverage in The Olam, Plasan anchors the second-tier industrial base layer — Israeli industrial counterparties that operate below the three primes by overall revenue but at international commercial scale in their specific capability domains. The category is structurally important to the broader Israeli defense industrial position; the three primes alone do not account for the depth of the industrial base.

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Sources

Plasan corporate disclosures; published research on Israeli defense industrial base; Defense News; Globes; The Times of Israel. Data current as of Q2 2026.