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Aston Martin MILITARY

MILITARY AUDIT UPDATED 2026-09-08
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Entity: Aston Martin Lagonda Global Holdings plc (LSE: AML; company no. 11488166) 1
Audit Date: 8 September 2026 1, 2
Audit Phase: Military

AML is an active UK public limited company, incorporated on 27 July 2018, whose registered SIC activities are motor-vehicle manufacture and head-office activities. It is the listed ultimate holding company for the Aston Martin group. 1, 2

Direct Defence Contracting & Procurement

No public evidence identified of an Aston Martin, group-company, AutoArt, TRASCO, or AddArmor contract, tender, framework agreement, or memorandum with the Israeli Ministry of Defence, IDF, Israel Police, Border Police, Israel Prison Service, or another Israeli security body. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 2, 8

No complete searchable SIBAT or IMOD procurement dataset was retrieved; consequently, the prior formulation that Aston Martin was absent from a complete SIBAT supplier directory is not maintained as a database-wide conclusion. Targeted searches retrieved no relevant public result, but this does not establish comprehensive procurement-record absence. 3, 5, 6, 8

Aston Martin’s identified commercial presence in Israel is an authorised civilian dealer, AutoArt IL Ltd, at Maskit 25, Herzliya, within Israel’s internationally recognised 1948 borders. 9, 10, 11, 12 AutoArt’s Israeli launch was reported in September 2014; Globes reported at that time that it was owned by Haim Danino, while AutoArt Group’s 2026 page names Tomer Dotan and Meir Ohayon as founders. 9, 11 The Dun & Bradstreet profile confirms the corporate entity and Herzliya address, but no current dealer agreement, Israeli registry extract, or public source resolves AutoArt’s current ownership structure precisely. 12, 2

An Israeli Ministry of Transport instruction dated 1 January 2023 approved registration of an Aston Martin V12 Vantage imported by AutoArt (I.L.) Ltd, identifying England as country of manufacture and classifying it as an M1 private-passenger coupé. 8 This is civilian vehicle-registration approval, not a procurement record, and does not identify a purchaser, an Israeli state-security end user, or a subsequent sale. 8

Aston Martin Lagonda Limited signed the UK Armed Forces Covenant at Gaydon on 28 April 2025, with CEO Adrian Hallmark and Major General Dan Reeve MC participating in the reported signing. 13, 14, 15 The Covenant commitments concern employment and community support for serving personnel, reservists, veterans, spouses, cadets, Armed Forces charities, flexible leave, five days’ paid reservist leave, an internal employee group, and commemorative activity. 13, 14, 2 It is an employment/community-support pledge, not a defence procurement contract, and the cited materials identify no vehicle supply, defence R&D, base service, weapons work, or Israeli state relationship. 13, 14, 2

Dual-Use Products & Tactical Variants

Aston Martin’s current official model material identifies civilian performance vehicles including Vantage, Vanquish, DBX, Valkyrie, Valour, and Valiant; it does not market a tactical, military-specification, or defence-grade vehicle line. 16, 17 The prior “DBX107” nomenclature is corrected: the SUV is DBX707, and “DBX107” is not supported by the reviewed corporate material. 16, 17

A third-party Australian fan/editorial blog described an “Aston Martin Valkyrie Military 2026” concept. 18 No Aston Martin corporate statement, press release, or defence-contract record confirms such a programme; the blog carried no official Aston Martin attribution and was unreachable for direct verification during the prior research. 18

TRASCO Bremen announced an Aston Martin DB11 fitted with its A-KIP lightweight Level 4 armouring concept on 13 August 2018. 19, 20 Its description attributes ballistic steel, ballistic glass, composite materials, and the conversion concept to TRASCO, and describes protection against criminal attack. 20 The evidence establishes a third-party modification, not an Aston Martin defence product, Aston Martin–TRASCO co-production arrangement, OEM approval, Israeli customer, or Israeli state-security end user; continuing production or sales are unknown. 19, 20

Trade coverage reported in 2022 that AddArmor produced a B4-protected Aston Martin Vantage for private-security and executive-protection use, with strengthened doors, a hardened roof, fuel-tank shielding, and run-flat tyres. 21, 22, 23 The conversion is attributed to AddArmor, not Aston Martin, and no first-party AddArmor document was retrieved identifying Aston Martin authorisation, a customer, destination, or Israeli military/security use. 21, 22, 23

No public evidence identified of either aftermarket programme being supplied to Israeli military, police, Border Police, prison-service, or other security end users. 21, 19, 22, 20, 23 No public evidence identified that Aston Martin authorised, commissioned, co-produced, or contracted either armouring programme for an Israeli state body. 21, 19, 22, 20, 23

Mercedes-Benz AG’s strategic cooperation agreement provides Aston Martin access to conventional, hybrid, and electric powertrain architecture and electrical/electronic architecture, including hardware and software components supplied through commercial agreements for luxury-vehicle launches through 2027. 24, 25 AML’s 2025 report likewise characterises Mercedes-Benz as a strategic automotive-technology partner. 2 The retrieved material identifies civilian automotive technology, not Israeli military or security users, Israeli defence production, military end-use certificates, or a defence-prime supply channel; Mercedes-Benz’s separate activities cannot be attributed to Aston Martin without evidence connecting them to this agreement. 2, 24, 25

Targeted searches produced no primary source establishing an Aston Martin–Plasan relationship. No public evidence identified of a Plasan-related pathway from Aston Martin to Israeli defence users; this does not exclude an undisclosed commercial relationship, but the proposed lead remains unverified. 2

No export-licence application, end-user certificate, or government export-control decision specific to Aston Martin, TRASCO’s DB11 conversion, or AddArmor’s Vantage conversion for Israeli defence or security end users was identified in the reviewed evidence. 26, 27, 28, 20, 23

Heavy Machinery, Construction & Infrastructure

Aston Martin is a luxury-vehicle manufacturer and does not produce construction, engineering, earthmoving, or other heavy machinery. 29, 1, 2, 16 No public evidence identified of Aston Martin equipment, vehicles, or machinery being used in settlement construction, maintenance, demolition, the separation barrier, military installations, or infrastructure in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. 3, 4, 30, 5, 6, 31, 2, 32

The supplied document-level checks found no Aston Martin mention in the reviewed OHCHR settlement-database reports, PAX report, Al-Haq material, and specified DBIO reports. 3, 4, 30, 31 These are document-scoped results only: an OHCHR database access failure cannot establish absence from a complete live database. 30, 33

Aston Martin’s Gaydon headquarters occupies the former RAF Gaydon site, and its St Athan manufacturing facility uses three hangars acquired from MOD St Athan in 2016. 29 Current corporate material describes Gaydon as AML’s global headquarters and a sports-car manufacturing, design, and engineering location, and St Athan as the DBX707 manufacturing site. 16, 34 No continuing MOD operational relationship, tenancy, or procurement role is documented in the reviewed evidence. 29, 2, 34

The group’s disclosed operations also include Wellesbourne, Wolverton Mill, Newport Pagnell, Silverstone, Nürburgring, Frankfurt, New York, Shanghai, Tokyo, and Singapore. 32 No source reviewed identifies a group-operated location in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, or elsewhere in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. 2, 32

Supply Chain Integration with Defence Primes

No public evidence identified of Aston Martin supplying components, sub-systems, raw materials, specialist manufacturing services, or technology to Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, Israel Military Industries, or another Israeli defence prime. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 2

No joint-development programme, co-production agreement, technology-transfer arrangement, or licensed-manufacturing agreement between Aston Martin and an Israeli defence firm was identified in the reviewed procurement records, NGO databases, corporate disclosures, and trade reporting. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 2 AML’s 2025 annual report has no text match for “Plasan” or “Elbit”; this does not rule out undisclosed relationships. 2

AML’s 2025 statutory group-company list identifies Aston Martin Lagonda Limited as the group company undertaking luxury-car manufacture and sales, parts sales, brand licensing, and motorsport activities. 2 The list includes distributors and sales/engineering entities in North America, China, Europe, Japan, and Asia-Pacific, plus Aston Martin Works Limited for sales, servicing, and restoration. 2 No Israeli-incorporated subsidiary, occupied-territory entity, or Israeli defence/security company appears in this list of holdings of at least 20%; the list cannot determine independent dealers’, franchisees’, or customers’ ownership or contractual positions. 2

Aston Martin’s documented 2024–2025 supply-chain challenges concerned civilian component shortages, including semiconductors and specialist automotive parts. 35, 36, 37 Its 2024 Responsible Procurement Policy and Sustainability Report set out general human-rights, ethical-sourcing, and modern-slavery commitments, without identified Israel-specific clauses, defence-sector provisions, or carve-outs. 36, 37, 32

As at 31 December 2025, disclosed voting-right interests included Lawrence Stroll at 32.99%, Li Shufu/Geely at 14.08%, PIF at 13.88%, and Mercedes-Benz AG at 7.54%; the Stroll figure includes interests separately disclosed for Yew Tree Overseas and Ernesto Bertarelli and must not be added to them. 2 This replaces the prior time-specific estimate that PIF held approximately 20.5%. 38, 2 AML identifies Mercedes-Benz AG, Lucid, and Geely as strategic partners, with the Lucid powertrain-component arrangement treated as related-party due to PIF’s substantial Lucid ownership; these are automotive and financial relationships, not evidence of an Israeli military or security relationship. 2

Logistical Sustainment & Base Services

No public evidence identified of Aston Martin contracts to provide catering, transport, fuel, waste management, facilities maintenance, telecommunications, shipping, freight forwarding, port handling, military cargo logistics, or other support services to IDF bases, training areas, detention centres, or Israeli security installations. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 2

No verified evidence connects Aston Martin, its listed subsidiaries, AutoArt, TRASCO, AddArmor, Mercedes technology supplied under the Aston Martin agreement, or Plasan to military-adjacent activity in settlements, the West Bank including East Jerusalem, or the Golan Heights. 2, 8, 24, 20, 23

Munitions, Weapons Systems & Strategic Platforms

No public evidence identified of Aston Martin serving as a prime contractor or licensed manufacturer of small arms, artillery, armoured fighting vehicles, unmanned aerial systems, naval vessels, ballistic or cruise missiles, or other lethal weapons platforms. 3, 5, 6, 7, 2

No public evidence identified of Aston Martin supplying ammunition, explosive ordnance, propellants, warhead components, munitions precursors, fire-control systems, targeting software, missile-defence systems, military drones, or armoured-vehicle systems to Israeli defence or security end users. 3, 5, 6, 7, 2

No public evidence identified of Aston Martin involvement, as a component supplier, system integrator, or maintenance/support provider, in Iron Dome, David’s Sling, Arrow, F-35, Merkava, or another Israeli strategic or tactical defence platform. 3, 5, 6, 7

Export Licensing, Regulatory & Legal History

The UK Government’s Israel export-control licensing releases are aggregate data by licence type and goods category, rather than applicant- or exporter-specific records. 26, 27 Although “Aston Martin” does not appear in the published material reviewed, those releases cannot establish company-specific licensing absence. 26, 27

The 28 February 2026 release records decisions under the UK’s post-2 September 2024 policy, 29 licence suspensions in September 2024, and six licences later suspended or amended. 26 No exporter-identifying official record, licence grant, refusal, suspension, revocation, or condition specific to Aston Martin and Israeli military or security end users was identified in the reviewed evidence. 26, 27, 28, 26

No investigation, citation, enforcement action, court proceeding, judicial review, or legal challenge concerning Aston Martin’s compliance with arms embargoes, export controls, sanctions, or supply activities with Israel was identified in the regulatory, parliamentary, judicial, and documentary record reviewed. 26, 27, 28

Civil Society Scrutiny & Documented Investigations

A direct Who Profits search returned no Aston Martin result. 6 The previously cited guessed AFSC direct-company URL returned an HTTP 404 error, but that error does not establish database-wide absence and is not treated as such. 7 Similarly, an OHCHR access failure does not establish whether Aston Martin is absent from a complete live database. 33

The supplied document-level review supports the narrower conclusion that Aston Martin is not mentioned in UN Special Rapporteur report A/HRC/59/23, the supplied 2023 and 2025 OHCHR settlement-database reports, PAX’s June 2024 report, Al-Haq’s July 2024 material, and the specified DBIO reports. 3, 4, 30, 5, 31 PAX’s report focuses on identified arms companies including Boeing, General Dynamics, Leonardo, Lockheed Martin, RTX, and Rolls-Royce Defence, and does not name Aston Martin; this finding is limited to that report. 3

No published investigation by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, or B’Tselem identifying Aston Martin in a defence- or occupation-related context was found in the completed searches. 3, 4, 30, 5 No organised BDS boycott, divestment, or institutional-exclusion campaign specifically targeting Aston Martin for Israeli defence-sector activities was identified. 6, 7

Aston Martin’s 2024 sustainability disclosures address general human rights, ethical sourcing, and modern-slavery commitments. 36, 37, 32 No Israel-specific end-use-monitoring commitment, policy change, statement, or contract termination related to Israeli defence or security activities was identified in the accessible material. 36, 37

Saudi Aramco is title sponsor of the Aston Martin-branded Formula One team under a five-year agreement reported in late 2023, and the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre recorded in June 2026 that Aston Martin did not respond to its request for comment. 39 The stated BHRRC concerns concerned migrant-labour conditions at Aramco worksites and environmental claims, not Israeli military supply or occupation-related activity. 39 AML sold its minority AMR GP stake during 2025; therefore, the Aston Martin-branded F1 team should not be treated as an AML group subsidiary merely because of shared branding. 2

As at 31 December 2025, Lawrence Stroll was Executive Chairman and Adrian Hallmark was CEO. 2 Sir Nigel Boardman was identified as Chair of Help for Heroes, a UK military-veterans charity; the disclosed source provides no Israel-, IDF-, settlement-, or Israeli-defence-industry connection. 2 No public evidence identified, within the reviewed materials, of Israeli defence-industry directorships, equity in Israeli defence primes, Israeli military-welfare donations, or co-belligerency statements by the reviewed controlling principals. 40, 41, 42, 2 Personal heritage, family background, and unverified associations are not treated as evidence of defence support. 2

Footnotes

  1. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/11488166 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  2. https://www.astonmartin.com/-/media/corporate/corporatearchive/documents/annual-reports/aston-martin-lagonda-annual-report-2025.pdf?rev=481f11aaed454601b437f2d2730eb377 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15 ↩16 ↩17 ↩18 ↩19 ↩20 ↩21 ↩22 ↩23 ↩24 ↩25 ↩26 ↩27 ↩28 ↩29 ↩30 ↩31

  3. https://paxforpeace.nl/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/The-Companies-Arming-Israel-and-Their-Financiers-June-2024.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13

  4. https://www.alhaq.org/publications/26931.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  5. https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session59/advance-version/a-hrc-59-23-aev.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11

  6. https://whoprofits.org/companies/?search=aston+martin ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11

  7. https://investigate.afsc.org/company/aston-martin ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  8. https://www.gov.il/BlobFolder/policy/23-0109/he/23-0109.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  9. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-aston-martin-launches-israel-sales-1000968509 ↩ ↩2

  10. https://www.astonmartin.com/en/dealers/aston-martin-israel ↩

  11. https://www.astonmartin-israel.co.il/en/pages/about ↩ ↩2

  12. https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.autoart_(il)_ltd.ce121d7194cc7de25ebc40590ebc056b.html ↩ ↩2

  13. https://www.astonmartin.com/en-gb/our-world/news/2025/5/1/aston-martin-signs-the-armed-forces-covenant-reinforcing-commitment-to-supporting-military-community ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  14. https://www.gov.uk/armed-forces-covenant-businesses/aston-martin-lagonda-limited ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  15. https://www.am-online.com/news/aston-martin-signs-armed-forces-covenant-as-part-of-dandi-strategy ↩

  16. https://www.astonmartin.com/en/corporate/about-us ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  17. https://www.astonmartin.com/en-us/models ↩ ↩2

  18. https://jwdaperformingarts.com.au/aston-martin-valkyrie-military-2026/ ↩ ↩2

  19. https://www.trasco-bremen.de/en/aston-martin-db11-141.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  20. https://www.trasco-bremen.de/en/news/aston-martin-db11-with-anti-kidnapping-armouring.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  21. https://robbreport.com/motors/cars/addarmor-bulletproof-aston-martin-vantage-1234671408/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  22. https://www.motor1.com/news/576360/armored-aston-martin-vantage-from-addarmor/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  23. https://www.topgear.com/car-news/modified/a-us-company-has-built-a-bulletproof-aston-martin-vantage ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  24. https://media.astonmartin.com/mercedes-benz-ag-strategic-technology-agreement-new-financing-and-q3-results/?lang=eng ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  25. https://www.astonmartin.com/-/media/corporate/corporatearchive/documents/results-centre/2020---results-centre/fy---2020/aston-martin-lagonda-fy-2020-results---press-release.pdf?rev=267148fa0d8647e4bf10524c3405b00e ↩ ↩2

  26. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/export-control-licensing-management-information-for-israel/israel-export-control-licensing-data-28-february-2026 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  27. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/export-control-licensing-management-information-for-israel/israel-export-control-licensing-data-6-december-2024 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  28. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/687907f70263c35f52e4dda2/UK_Strategic_Export_Controls_Annual_Report_2024_Accessible.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  29. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston_Martin ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  30. https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session60/advance-version/a-hrc-60-19-aev.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  31. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/26/un-lists-150-firms-tied-to-illegal-israeli-settlements ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  32. https://www.astonmartin.com/-/media/corporate/corporate---archive/documents/sustainability/sustainability-reports/aston-martin-sustainability-report-2024.pdf?rev=e656094a69384ca3b748f0d3d133fc8c ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  33. https://www.ohchr.org/en/business/bhr-database ↩ ↩2

  34. https://www.astonmartin.com/en/corporate/about-us/locations/gaydon ↩ ↩2

  35. https://www.astonmartin.com/en/corporate/investors/annual-report ↩

  36. https://www.astonmartin.com/-/media/corporate/documents/sustainability/sustainability-reports/aston-martin-sustainability-report-2024.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  37. https://www.astonmartin.com/-/media/corporate/corporatearchive/documents/2024-responsible-procurement-policy.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  38. https://www.arabnews.com/node/2405961/business-economy ↩

  39. https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/aston-martin-non-response-re-sponsorship-deal-with-saudi-aramco/ ↩ ↩2

  40. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Stroll ↩

  41. https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/ASTON-MARTIN-LAGONDA-GLOB-46472778/news/Aston-Martin-Appoints-Daniel-Li-As-Geely-s-Nominated-Non-Executive-Director-44449281/ ↩

  42. https://www.jewoftheweek.net/2016/11/04/jews-of-the-week-lawrence-and-lance-stroll/ ↩