Navier-Stokes equations in the whole space R 3 subject to an anisotropic viscosity and a random perturbation of multiplicative type is described. By adding a term of Brinkman-Forchheimer type to the model, existence and uniqueness of global weak solutions in the PDE sense are proved. These are strong solutions in the probability sense. The Brinkman-Forchheirmer term provides some extra regularity in the space L 2α+2 (R 3 ), with α > 1. As a consequence, the nonlinear term has better properties which allow to prove uniqueness. The proof of existence is performed through a control method. A Large Deviations Principle is given and proven at the end of the paper. ∂ t u − ν ∆u + u · ∇u + ∇p + a u 2α u = f, divu = 0, u| t=0 = u 0 , 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 60H15, 60F10; Secondary 76D06, 76M35.