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

Former D.C. National Guard brass raised national security concerns about quickly transferring an elite fighter jet squadron ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

NORAD’s predecessor, the Continental Air Defence Command (CONAD), began tracking Santa in 1955 when a child accidentally rang the organisation asking to speak to Father Christmas after a ...

NORAD uses radars, satellites and jet fighters to track Santa's journey on Dec. 24, according to its website. With 47 radars set up across Canada's North and Alaska, NORAD uses its North Warning ...

None of those planes entered U.S. air space. On Sept. 30, NORAD posted a dramatic video of a Russian fighter jet flying close to a NORAD aircraft off the coast of Alaska. At the time, a U.S ...

“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 ...

NORAD’s website has previously stated that its fighter jets have “intercepted Santa many, many times” over the past 65 years, adding: “When the jets intercept Santa, they tip their wings ...