Finnish hovercraft Tuuli
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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.
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Scale model of FNS Tuuli | |
History | |
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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 | |
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