Argus As 014
1940s German pulsejet aircraft engine / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Argus As 014 (designated 109-014 by the RLM) 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 Kawanishi Maru Ka10 for the Kawanishi Baika kamikaze jet.
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Argus As 014 of the V-1 flying bomb on display at the Royal Air Force Museum London | |
Type | Pulsejet |
Manufacturer | Argus Motoren |
First run | 1941 |
Major applications | Fieseler Fi 103 (V-1) Fieseler Fi 103R Reichenberg |
Number built | 31,100[1] |
Developed into | Kawanishi Maru Ka10 |
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