Argus As 014

As 014
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

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.

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.

  1. ^ Gunston 1989, p.17.