Shladot
Light armored vehicles and mobilized homeland security solutions
Vitality Radar
Pillar Analysis
Strategic Assessment
Strategic Vector
Shladot is a mature Israeli armored vehicle and protection systems manufacturer focused on supplying military, police, and security customers with COTS-based light armored platforms and related protected mobility solutions.
Efficiency Ratio
Given a mid-sized team and long-standing product lines, Shladot appears to convert engineering and production resources into steady but not hyper-scale output, with an emphasis on tailored contracts rather than volume-led growth.
Evidence Signals
1 negative signalThe U.S. Department of Defense awarded a sole supplier contract worth about $10 million to MDT Armor, the American subsidiary of Shladot, for production and supply of David urban light armored combat vehicles for the Israel Defense Forces.
Greek Police adopted and have been using a David armored vehicle manufactured by Shladot along the country’s northern border, with the vehicle tailored to police requirements as a five-door SUV configuration.
Shladot introduced an armored cabs and cab protection kits offering for military and paramilitary trucks, providing crew survivability while maintaining vehicle operational capability and logistics footprint.
Shladot updated its armored vehicles product family, emphasizing the David and Tiger families based on commercial off-the-shelf platforms, with multiple armor levels and seating configurations for military and law enforcement users.
Shladot published a detailed description of the Tiger Mk II armored vehicle as a cost-effective, highly armored, light protected all-terrain vehicle for a crew of up to 12 with protection up to STANAG III.
Shladot formalized a customized vehicle armoring service providing turnkey armored solutions for customer-specific vehicles, defining armor level, load capability, and cost parameters jointly with clients.
A human rights watchdog reported that David armored vehicles manufactured by MDT Armor, owned by Shladot, are used by the Israeli military in operations associated with routine human rights violations in the occupied West Bank, increasing reputational and political risk exposure.
- About
- Shladot designs and manufactures light, battle-proven armored transport vehicles and mobilized ground systems. Its flagship platform, the David Light Armored Vehicle, provides blast and ballistic protection for military, special forces, and law enforcement personnel during combat and counterinsurgency operations.
- Relevancy
- Designs and manufactures the David Light Armored Vehicle and mobilized ground systems delivering blast and ballistic protection for military, special forces, and law enforcement personnel during combat, counterinsurgency, and high-threat transport operations. Battle-proven Israeli light-armor platform with international export.
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- #lightarmor #armoredvehicles #ballisticprotection #blastprotection #counterinsurgency #davidlav