Finnish hovercraft Tuuli

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Scale model of FNS Tuuli
History
Name	Tuuli
Owner	Finnish Navy
Ordered	9 July 1999
Builder	Aker Finnyards, Rauma, Finland
Completed	10 June 2002
Commissioned	Never entered active service
Stricken	19 December 2003
Homeport	Upinniemi
Fate	Broken up in 2013
General characteristics
Type	Hovercraft
Displacement	84 tons
Length	27.4 m (90 ft)
Beam	15.4 m (51 ft)
Draught	-
Installed power	2 × Vericor TF40 gas turbines (6,000 kW)
Propulsion	Two air propellers
Speed	50 knots (93 km/h; 58 mph)
Complement	10
Sensors and processing systems	EADS ANCS 2000 combat data system SAGEM EOMS
Armament	(Note: These are possible combinations. All systems have been transferred to the Hamina class) Denel Umkhonto-IR VLS SAM system Saab AB RBS-15 Mk3 SSM torpedoes or mines (Sea Mine 2000)

Tuuli was a hovercraft built for the Finnish Navy. Originally intended to be the lead vessel of a class of four combat hovercraft, she was never officially commissioned and after having been laid up for the most of her career, she was broken up in 2013.