This issue tracks a major leap in Baltic defence industrial capacity: a German-backed plan to assemble Leopard 2A8 tanks in Lithuania and Lithuania’s €252m CAESAR Mk II artillery purchase. We also cover a record Estonian defence-tech delegation to Berlin, new DefSecIntel–TYTAN counter-drone cooperation, and leaders’ pledge to deliver Rail Baltica on schedule. Plus: a €1.8bn military base build-out for the German brigade in Lithuania, Latvia’s LMT transformation into a tech group, and fresh insight into the (often unseen) scale of Estonia’s defence startup and investment ecosystem.