Santa Is On His Way, Even To Pyongyang!

As I write this, NORAD reports that Santa is heading for Singapore and has delivered more than estimated 1.5 billion gifts!

The NORAD Santa tracking site is a venerable tradition and one we love to highlight.

Here’s an example of what the witty folks at NORAD can do. They tweeted this earlier this morning:

“Santa just tracked over Pyongyang, North Korea. Though its leaders may be naughty, the children are still nice. @NoradSanta“

That’s the decent sort of sentiment we would expect from folks who care enough to use the highly capable radar, satellites and data fusion capabilities of the US and Canadian militaries to track the big man in the red suit.

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The team at Breaking Defense — Sydney, our ad guy Russell, our guy who does lots of stuff known as Peter, and our boss John — wish you all a Merry Christmas. If you’re watching the perimeter, on a boat or a ship, flying a satellite or a plane or just taking it easy on a base somewhere around this blue planet, thank you for what you’re doing. May your day be quiet.