Although it may look like a simple process of an aircraft fleet taking off in a hurry, a scramble is actually a complex ...

A NORAD spokesperson on Thursday identified the aircraft as two Tu-95 Bear bombers and two Su-35 Flanker fighter jets. Russian aircraft regularly fly through the Alaska air defense ID zone ...

Seventeen former D.C. National Guard generals and other brass warned Congress this week against giving Maryland control of ...

NORAD launched its first Santa tracking website ... NOARD takes the tracking job seriously and its jet fighters escort Santa along his route in North America. The pilots of the American Air ...

Every day, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) uses radar, satellites and jets to monitor the skies. But on Christmas Eve, it's time for their most special mission -- tracking ...

NORAD also has an online tracker for children to watch Santa travel across the world in real-time. This year’s website launched on December 1, and it currently shows a village in the North Pole and a ...

Air Force General Glen VanHerck, NORAD's commander: "24 hours a day, 365 days a year, NORAD defends North America by tracking ...

NORAD tracks the Big Red Guy the same way it tracks everything else... using radars and satellites all around the world to help identify exactly where Santa is. Once Santa and his reindeer enter North ...

On Christmas Eve, however, NORAD adds one special mission: tracking Santa Claus as he makes his way around the world. “We have that same technology, our radar, our satellites, our fighter jets ...

Radars, fighter jets, and satellites are the resources used to protect and defend the nation. They’re also being used to track the big man in red’s route. Volunteers at the NORAD Command ...

“We have some of the best in and most capable systems in the world to track all sorts of objects to include a sleigh, radars, satellites and also our fighter jets.” NORAD Tracks Santa depends ...