07March 2024Press

Small Arms Defense Journal Profiles High Ground Defense

Small Arms Defense Journal

Small Arms Defense Journal's "Meet the Maker" series profiled High Ground Defense in March 2024, covering the company's operator-led origins and its two-system approach: modernizing the proven M134 pattern with the M134HG Minigun, and designing the clean-sheet Advantage™ Gatling Gun on proven Gatling geometry.

The article walks through what HGD's team carried into the company: decades of maintaining M134 systems in the field, and a list of failure points its founders set out to engineer away. It also examines the design logic of the Advantage, retaining proven bolt architecture while replacing feed, safing, and drive.

"The M134HGD has numerous advantages over existing M134 type Gatling gun systems."
Dan Shea, Small Arms Defense Journal

The profile also spends time on the shop floor: High Ground Defense's engineering staff carry decades of hands-on experience with M134-series systems, and the piece credits that field-honed background, paired with in-house 5-axis CNC machining and prototyping capability, as the foundation the M134HG was built on.

High Ground Defense M134HG Minigun in a side studio view
M134HG Minigun / High Ground Defense

The full article is available at Small Arms Defense Journal.

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