CTV-N-2 Gorgon IIC

The CTV-N-2 Gorgon IIC, also designated KGN, KUN and CTV-2, was an experimental drone that began as a ship-launched pulsejet bombardment missile for the planned invasion of Japan. The Naval Aircraft Modification Unit was to build twenty prototypes and the Singer Manufacturing Company a hundred, but production plans were cancelled at war's end and development continued as a test vehicle for guidance and control devices. Its pulsejet was mounted above the rear fuselage, launch was by catapult or sled with a rocket booster, and in 1950 an active radar seeker homed from nine nautical miles. Eight target drone versions were built as the TD3N, later KD2N, and the RTV-N-15 Pollux was derived from the airframe.