The NATO Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Force took part in Neptune Strike 25-4, a major enhanced vigilance activity led by Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO in Oeiras, Portugal.
NATO’s enhanced Vigilance Activity Neptune Strike 25-4 is under way from 19 to 26 November 2025, combining the maritime strike capabilities of the United Kingdom and Italian Carrier Strike Groups in the Mediterranean Sea.
NATO has confirmed the successful completion of Neptune Strike 25-3, a long-planned enhanced vigilance activity demonstrating the integration of high-end maritime strike capabilities with air-land operations.
According to NATO, “The Neptune Strike series is designed to demonstrate NATO’s ability to integrate high-end maritime strike capabilities, strengthen deterrence and ensure freedom of navigation across critical waterways. It also aims to secure strategic maritime chokepoints while testing interoperability across air, land and sea.” The exercise, led by Naval Striking and Support Forces
NATO has begun NEPTUNE STRIKE 25-3, a large-scale multinational enhanced Vigilance Activity taking place from 22 to 26 September 2025.
The French Navy allowed a rare look into one of their nuclear submarines while preparing for an upcoming NATO mission on Monday 15, 2024.
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For the third time this year, the Neptune series of vigilance activities demonstrates NATO’s ability to integrate the high-end maritime strike capabilities of a U.S. Carrier Strike Group with Allied military activities. Working together with German and French aircraft, the jets flew more than a thousand miles over Europe thanks to aerial refuelling coordinated by
