While many people are most familiar with their annual efforts to track Santa around the globe on Christmas Eve, the men and women of NORAD usually have a far more serious mission.
, NORAD is run by a commander from the United States and a deputy commander from Canada. The commander of NORAD is also simultaneously the head of the U.S. Northern Command, giving them the authority to issue military orders to U.S. forces.
, when four Russian military planes flew through a buffer zone in international airspace along the U.S. coastline. Four U.S. fighter jets and two support planes intercepted them and flew along with them as they transited the area, NORAD said.NORAD uses an integrated network of radar installations along the coastlines, including in remote Alaska near the Russian border, along with airborne surveillance aircraft and satellites to track potential incursions.
NORAD can then share that data with military aircraft flying to intercept intruding airplanes or balloons.The radars, satellites and other sensors NORAD uses are very sensitive, but are typically used to track what the military calls"kinetic" threats — planes or missiles, for example. In a Feb.
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