Dillon Aero in Scottsdale, Arizona
Our customers do some amazing things with helicopters. If those amazing things include suppressing enemy fire or strafing an enemy column with miniguns blazing, chances are that a Dillon Aero minigun or ammunition feed system is involved.
Former TWA pilot Mike Dillon founded Dillon Aero—an offshoot of his Dillon Precision firearms accessories and ammunition reloader business—in the early 1990s while consulting in the movie industry. He had obtained a handful of surplus miniguns and had been contracted to fire them on a film shoot in northern Arizona. When the guns continued to jam, threatening the entire shooting schedule, Dillon and his team decided to redesign the ammunition feed mechanisms.
It took quite a few years to perfect the design, but the Dillon team finally unveiled a new feeder/delinker mechanism that fed the ammunition to the minigun without significant jamming issues. While Dillon and his team were merely trying to get their miniguns to work well, the US Army caught wind of the improvement and asked for a demonstration. During the demo, the Dillon mechanism (DADF-2000) fired 50,000 minigun rounds without jamming, the US Army replaced their systems with the Dillon system, and Dillon Aero was born.