Plasan

[2] For growth, the company then expanded into producing larger protective panels for ground vehicles used by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

[2] Expansion continued in the late 1990s and in addition to opening a Prototype Department, the company began to assemble its armour solutions in-house, this activity having previously been contracted out.

The future lucrative American market was also first penetrated in the late 1990s, with a protection solution for HMMWV ambulance variants being supplied to AM General.

[2][7] Plasan provided its first solutions for air platforms in 1998, supplying armor to Singapore for C-130 aircraft and Super Puma helicopters.

With their first full vehicle body design, Plasan shipped protection kits to Greece for weld-free assembly on the ELVO line and then fitting onto chassis supplied by AM General.

[2] The Kitted Hull concept involves the bolting and bonding of steel, composite and other panels[2] to an existing chassis.

At the peak of MaxxPro production Plasan was also actively involved in the first stage of the US’ Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) program.

In total, 8722 M-ATVs were delivered to US armed forces, and at the peak of production Plasan was producing over 1000 Kitted Hulls per month.

[2][18][19][20] In 2012 the company made its first foray into the naval section by participating in a tender initiated by BAE Systems of the UK for what would develop to be the Type 26 Frigate.

In 2018 Plasan commenced a cooperation with Hanwha of South Korea that includes protection solutions for the Redback IFV and its Elbit-supplied turret, and the Huntsman AS9 155 mm self-propelled gun (SPG).

[21] In 2021 the company unveiled the All-Terrain electric Mission Module (ATeMM), this a diversification from protection and into manoeuvring robotics.

The evolving SandCat range are a light protected vehicle based on the chassis and automotives of a Ford F550, this mated to a Plasan Kitted Hull solution.

Survivability solutions (sea): In 2012 Plasan participated in a ship armouring tender issued by BAE Systems in the UK.

Plasan was selected to supply composite armor for the first batch of the Royal Navy's Type 26 frigates, the City-class.

The SandCat essentially mates a Plasan-designed Kitted Hull concept body with a Ford F-550 chassis and automotives, the latter uprated and modified by Plasan.

The M-LPV retains the overall dimensions of the SandCat, but features a chassis less monocoque hull with mine blast protection.

The Storm Rider retains many of the Ford F-550 components and Plasan body panels used in the fourth generation SandCat, but overall is a larger and heavier design (11,500 kg GVW) that features full-time all-wheel drive and a fully independent suspension set-up.

A laboratory was first established in 1989, but this renovated and extended in 2009, and now occupies 1000m² with two indoor firing tunnels that can test rounds between 5.56 and 30 mm.

In 2007, Plasan acquired France-based AMEFO, a manufacturer of high hardness steel hulls and metal equipment for the automotive and defence industries.

[2] In May 2017, Plasan Sasa and its CEO, Dani Ziv, received the National Defense Industrial Association's (NDIA) Red Ball Express award, the first non-US organization to do so.

The list is arbitrarily alphabetical, and where available with brevity includes outline details of protection type, timeline, quantity delivered, and any other relative information.

Plasan has provided armor to a selection of Chinook users including the Royal Air Force
Plasan has an extensive ballistic laboratory, this first established in 1989