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Aston Martin MILITARY

MILITARY AUDIT UPDATED 2026-06-16
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Military Audit: Aston Martin Lagonda Global Holdings plc

Audit Phase: Military Subject Entity: Aston Martin Lagonda Global Holdings plc (LSE: AML; registered England & Wales) Principal Operations: Gaydon, Warwickshire (manufacturing/HQ); St Athan, Wales (DBX/SUV plant) Audit Date: June 2026 Scope: Forensic inventory of any military or defence nexus between Aston Martin Lagonda Global Holdings plc and the Israeli military, security, or defence sector - direct defence contracting, dual-use supply, heavy machinery, supply-chain integration with Israeli defence primes, logistical sustainment, munitions/weapons platforms, export-licensing history, and documented civil-society scrutiny. Evidence only; no scoring or interpretation. Evidence Base: Israeli and UK defence-export and licensing material (SIBAT directory, UK strategic-export-control licensing data), NGO corporate-accountability databases (Who Profits, AFSC Investigate), the UN OHCHR settlements database, Campaign Against Arms Trade material, corporate disclosures and shareholder records, automotive trade press, and defence trade reporting. All claims carry an inline reference marker; source URLs appear only in the End Notes.

Direct Defence Contracting & Procurement

No public evidence identified of any contract, tender award, framework agreement, or memorandum of understanding between Aston Martin Lagonda Global Holdings plc and the Israeli Ministry of Defense, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the Israel Prison Service, the Israel Border Police, or any other Israeli state security or intelligence body.

Aston Martin is a low-volume luxury sports-car and grand-tourer manufacturer, reporting wholesale volumes of 6,030 vehicles in financial year 2024 at a record average selling price, with a product line of civilian passenger cars (Vantage, DB12, DBS, DBX, Valhalla, Valkyrie).1 Its published corporate and investor materials describe no defence-contracting capability or military procurement relationship in any jurisdiction.1

No public evidence identified of Aston Martin appearing in the SIBAT Defense and HLS Directory (Israel’s defence-export and defence-cooperation directorate), which lists Israeli and partner defence and homeland-security industries by category, or in any Israeli Ministry of Defense procurement registry.2

No public evidence identified of Aston Martin as an exhibitor, sponsor, or participant at major international defence exhibitions. Reviewed material on DSEI (London), Eurosatory (Paris), and ISDEF (Tel Aviv) does not record Aston Martin in any capacity.34

The only documented military-production episode in the company’s history is domestic and historical: during the Second World War Aston Martin manufactured aircraft components for the British firm Vickers-Armstrong; no car was produced in that period.5 This is UK wartime sub-contracting from the 1940s with no documented connection to Israel or to any present-day defence relationship.5

Dual-Use Products & Tactical Variants

No public evidence identified that Aston Martin manufactures, markets, or supplies ruggedised, tactical, mil-spec, or defence-grade variants of any of its vehicle lines to any military or security end-user, including Israeli end-users.

The DB12, launched in 2023 and positioned by the company as a civilian “Super Tourer,” and the wider Aston Martin range are documented entirely under civilian passenger-vehicle specifications in independent automotive press.6 No factory-built armoured, tactical, or military-configured Aston Martin variant is recorded.

Armoured Aston Martins that do exist are third-party aftermarket conversions produced by independent armouring firms - for example Armormax (Aston Martin Rapide, Vanquish), AddArmor (Vantage), and TRASCO of Bremen (DB11) - fitting civilian executive-protection ballistic packages (B4/B6-class glass, kevlar/ballistic-steel panels, run-flat inserts).78 These are civilian VIP/executive-protection builds carried out by separate companies, not Aston Martin factory military products, and the reviewed material attributes no such conversion to an Israeli military or security end-user.78

No application for an end-user certificate, dual-use export licence, or technology-transfer authorisation relating to Aston Martin products and Israeli defence or security end-users was identified. UK strategic-export-control licensing data for Israel records licensed exporters and goods categories and does not surface Aston Martin as a named licensee for Israeli defence customers in the reviewed material.9 Aston Martin is not named in Campaign Against Arms Trade compilations of UK arms-export licensing to Israel.10

Heavy Machinery, Construction & Infrastructure

No public evidence identified. Aston Martin does not design, manufacture, or market heavy machinery, construction equipment, excavators, bulldozers, earthmoving vehicles, or armoured engineering vehicles.1

No NGO field investigation, UN documentation, satellite-imagery analysis, or photographic record reviewed places Aston Martin vehicles or equipment in settlement construction, separation-barrier works, checkpoint construction, or military-installation development in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, or Gaza.1112 The company’s manufacturing footprint is concentrated at Gaydon (Warwickshire) and St Athan (Wales) in the United Kingdom, with no identified operational presence in Israeli-controlled or occupied territory.1

Supply Chain Integration with Defence Primes

No public evidence identified, in the sources reviewed, of a confirmed current or historical supply-chain relationship between Aston Martin and an Israeli defence prime (Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, or IMI/Israel Military Industries).

A potential nexus was examined and could not be substantiated. Plasan Carbon Composites - the Walker, Michigan automotive carbon-fibre operation that is a subsidiary/affiliate of the Israeli armour manufacturer Plasan Sasa (maker of the SandCat tactical armoured vehicle used by the IDF, and a US-military Joint Light Tactical Vehicle sub-contractor) - is a Tier-1 supplier of Class-A and structural carbon-fibre body panels to automakers.131415 The publicly named automotive customers of Plasan’s carbon-composites business in the reviewed trade press are the Chevrolet Corvette, Dodge Viper, and Ford Mustang; Aston Martin is not named as a Plasan customer in any of the primary or trade sources reviewed.1516 Aston Martin’s documented structural-carbon manufacturing partner for its monocoque/chassis programmes (One-77, Valkyrie) is the Canadian firm Multimatic, not an Israeli supplier.17 On the evidence reviewed, an Aston Martin–Plasan supply relationship is not confirmed.

No public evidence identified of Aston Martin participating in any joint venture, co-production, or tiered-supplier arrangement with an Israeli defence prime.

Logistical Sustainment & Base Services

No public evidence identified. No contract, framework, or service arrangement was identified under which Aston Martin provides fleet supply, vehicle maintenance, fuel, catering, transport, facilities management, or other logistical or base-support services to the IDF, the Israeli Ministry of Defense, or any Israeli security body.111

The company’s after-sales and servicing network supports civilian Aston Martin owners through franchised dealerships; no reviewed source records the provisioning of sustainment or base services to any military.1

Munitions, Weapons Systems & Strategic Platforms

No public evidence identified. Aston Martin does not design, manufacture, integrate, or supply munitions, small arms, missiles, guided weapons, ammunition, propellants, fire-control systems, armoured fighting vehicles, naval platforms, military aircraft, drones, or any strategic weapons platform.1

No reviewed source records Aston Martin as a component or sub-system supplier into any weapons system fielded by the Israeli military.29

Export Licensing, Regulatory & Legal History

No public evidence identified of Aston Martin holding, applying for, or being refused a UK strategic export licence for military or dual-use goods destined for Israeli defence or security end-users. UK export-control licensing data for Israel - which tracks military and dual-use licences, applications, and suspensions - does not record Aston Martin as a named licensee in the reviewed period.9

No public evidence identified of any regulatory finding, sanctions designation, prosecution, or court judgment against Aston Martin relating to arms-export controls, military supply, or transactions with the Israeli defence sector in any jurisdiction.910

Ownership note (recorded for completeness, not as a military nexus): Aston Martin’s substantial shareholders include the Yew Tree consortium led by Lawrence Stroll, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Geely, and Mercedes-Benz; its Formula One team is separately associated with title sponsor Saudi Aramco.1819 None of these relationships is documented as a defence or military arrangement with Israel, and no transitive military nexus to Israel arises from them on the evidence reviewed.1819

Civil Society Scrutiny & Documented Investigations

No public evidence identified of Aston Martin being named in the principal corporate-accountability databases tracking commercial involvement in the Israeli occupation or military supply.

Aston Martin is not listed in the Who Profits Research Center company database of corporations involved in the Israeli occupation in the reviewed material.11 It is not recorded in the AFSC Investigate database of companies linked to the Israeli military occupation in the reviewed material.12 It does not appear among the business enterprises listed in the UN OHCHR database of companies involved in activities related to Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory.20

No public evidence identified of an organised BDS or divestment campaign targeting Aston Martin over a military or defence nexus to Israel, nor of any NGO field report, investigative-journalism exposé, or shareholder-resolution filing alleging such a nexus, in the reviewed material.1112

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Footnotes

  1. https://www.astonmartin.com/-/media/corporate/documents/2024-results/aml-fy-2024-results-announcement-vf.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  2. https://www.sibat.mod.gov.il/Industries/directory/Pages/default.aspx ↩ ↩2

  3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSEI ↩

  4. https://www.eurosatory.com/en/ ↩

  5. https://www.astonmartin.com/en/our-world/113-years-in-the-making ↩ ↩2

  6. https://www.astonmartin.com/en/models/past-models/db9 ↩

  7. https://armormax.com/armored-cars/bulletproof-aston-martin-vanquish/ ↩ ↩2

  8. https://www.trasco-bremen.de/en/aston-martin-db11-141.html ↩ ↩2

  9. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/export-control-licensing-management-information-for-israel/israel-export-control-licensing-data-28-february-2026 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  10. https://caat.org.uk/data/companies/sibat-israel-ministry-of-defense/ ↩ ↩2

  11. https://www.whoprofits.org/companies/all ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  12. https://investigate.afsc.org/all-companies ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  13. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasan_SandCat ↩

  14. https://www.crainsgrandrapids.com/news/manufacturing/walker-manufacturer-lands-300m-defense-contract-for-military-vehicle-components/ ↩

  15. https://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20120924/FREE/120929963/wixom-s-plasan-carbon-composites-finds-carbon-fiber-niche ↩ ↩2

  16. https://www.compositesworld.com/news/plasan-aims-to-launch-high-volume-carbon-fiber-body-applications ↩

  17. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimatic ↩

  18. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/aston-martin-lagonda-global-holdings-053955361.html ↩ ↩2

  19. https://www.arabnews.com/node/2425996/sport ↩ ↩2

  20. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/un-human-rights-office-updates-database-businesses-involved-israeli ↩