It was flight-tested in a number of prototype aircraft, but was not accepted for production.
It had an annular combustion chamber with 24 nozzles and a single-stage turbine.
It had a fixed exhaust nozzle and had a turbine starting unit.
[1] It was used in the Mikoyan-Gurevich I-350, but flamed out when it was throttled back on that aircraft's first flight on 16 June 1951.
The AL-5 was modified as the AL-5G in an attempt to rectify the flame-out problem, which also increased its thrust by 2 kN (450 lbf), and was successfully flown in the prototype Ilyushin Il-46 bomber during 1952, but was not placed into production when the Tupolev Tu-16 was ordered into production instead of the Il-46.