The aim of the Defence Estonia Cluster is to promote innovation in the defence and security industry and to develop new and highly competitive products and services for export. The Clusters’ target is to increase the export volume of Estonian defence and security industry tenfold by the year 2030.
From beginning of 2023 Defence Estonia Cluster has silver label of the European Cluster Excellence, the internationally recognised quality label.

We strongly recommend you to read Taavi’s full article on Edasi.org
Some of the key points from this article:

1. In 15 years, the Estonian defence industry has grown to such an extent that about 10 products from our company are already in use in Ukraine. In 15 years, the defence industry in Ukraine has grown to 15.15 million units. The defence industry’s turnover in 2022 was 250 million, the target is to reach 1 billion euros by 2030, based on both exports and domestic demand.
2. The EKTL has reached a stage in its development where we believe that within 6-12 months, the members of the Union can increase their production capacity to a level that would provide €100 million of defence products to support Ukraine and help Ukraine win the war.
3. The Estonian defence industry can be the most flexible and reliable partner for the Estonian Defence Forces, play on home field advantage, and precisely serve the interests of Estonian defence.
4. The sector needs a little more security than it has at present. A good first step would be to amend the National Defence Act in such a way that it is unambiguously clear to Estonia that the local defence industry is part of Estonia’s defence capability.