page_title: Argus As 014
section_title: Operational history
hierarchical_section_title: Argus As 014 / Operational history
caption_attribution_description: English: Sectioned Argus As 014 pulse jet engine on display at the London Science Museum.
context_page_description: The Argus As 014 was a pulsejet engine used on the German V-1 flying bomb of World War II, and the first model of pulsejet engine placed in mass production. License manufacture of the As 014 was carried out in Japan in the latter stages of World War II, as the Maru Ka10 for the Kawanishi Baika kamikaze jet.
  The United States reverse-engineered the design for the Ford PJ31 powering the Republic-Ford JB-2 cruise missile and the experimental USAAF-developed JB-4 television-guided bomb.
context_section_description: The prototype engine was tested while slung below a Gotha Go 145 Luftwaffe training biplane marked D-IIWS in April 1941] and the first prototype V-1 flew on December 24 of 1942. The As 014, as well as the higher thrust As 044 pulsejet engine, was also under consideration as a power source for various last-ditch German fighters in the closing days of World War II. Production totaled 31,100 units.
  After the Second World War the As 014 was reverse-engineered / copied for use by the United States as the Ford PJ31 on the Republic-Ford JB-2 (Fieseler Fi 103 copy), and by the Soviet Union as the Chelomey D-3 on the 10Kh (also a Fieseler Fi 103 copy).
caption: Sectioned AS 014 engine on display at the London Science Museum
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