NORAD (missile defense)

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It stands for North American Aerospace Defense Command, but why?? Shouldn't it be NAADC then? What is NORAD supposed to mean??

 

I'm not sure, but they track Santa every Christmas.

 

[Colt45]

NORth American Areospace Ddefense

 

[biffbacon]

Originally posted by: jumpr
I'm not sure, but they track Santa every Christmas.

i hope they dont shoot him down on accident

 

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Originally posted by: Colt45
NORth American Areospace Ddefense

Oooh... sacrifice accuracy for a catchy name, eh...

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Originally posted by: biffbacon

Originally posted by: jumpr
I'm not sure, but they track Santa every Christmas.

i hope they dont shoot him down on accident

I don't think NORAD is ready to shoot anything down.

 

[Colt45]

Originally posted by: clicknext

Originally posted by: Colt45
NORth American Areospace Ddefense

Oooh... sacrifice accuracy for a catchy name, eh...

of course. naadc doesnt have the same ring to it as norad

 

[Bootprint]

Also the name use to be North American Air Defense Command...

 

[Beau]

It's both

 

[notfred]

I went looking and I can't find any acronyms for it that actually would be NORAD.

 

[Bootprint]

NORAD rolls of the tongue better than NAADC

 

[ReiAyanami]

Santa has anti-missile railgun lasers mounted to his sled, he cannot be shot down. The children of the kids at Norad got no presents on year...

 

[Platypus]

Same reason RADAR stands for Radio Detection And Ranging

RAdio Detection And Ranging

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: clicknext
It stands for North American Aerospace Defense Command, but why?? Shouldn't it be NAADC then? What is NORAD supposed to mean??

they're not just missle defense they track all potentially hostile air traffic in north america. bombers, fighters, in addition to possible incoming ICBMs and SLBMs.

 

[Bootprint]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: clicknext
It stands for North American Aerospace Defense Command, but why?? Shouldn't it be NAADC then? What is NORAD supposed to mean??

they're not just missle defense they track all potentially hostile air traffic in north america. bombers, fighters, in addition to possible incoming ICBMs and SLBMs.

And track Satellites, giving you those nice 2 line elements for satellite programs...

 

[tcsenter]

It stands for North American Aerospace Defense Command, but why?? Shouldn't it be NAADC then? What is NORAD supposed to mean??

NORAD is not a missile defense system. At least not yet.

It is designed to detect and track any potential unfriendlies approaching or entering US airspace, particularly aircraft such as bombers but I suppose that can include space ships, too.

They only scramble fighters to intercept aircraft. No point in trying to intercept an ICBM coming in at Mach 5 with an F-16. It would be a one in a million shot.

 

[nick1985]

Originally posted by: KnightBreed

Originally posted by: biffbacon

Originally posted by: jumpr
I'm not sure, but they track Santa every Christmas.

i hope they dont shoot him down on accident

I don't think NORAD is ready to shoot anything down.

liberal!

 

[amnesiac]

http://www.fas.org

 

[Bootprint]

Originally posted by: nick1985

Originally posted by: KnightBreed

Originally posted by: biffbacon

Originally posted by: jumpr
I'm not sure, but they track Santa every Christmas.

i hope they dont shoot him down on accident

I don't think NORAD is ready to shoot anything down.

liberal!

They use to hunt for Soviet Bear...

 

[Cyberian]

Originally posted by: tcsenter

It stands for North American Aerospace Defense Command, but why?? Shouldn't it be NAADC then? What is NORAD supposed to mean??

NORAD is not a missile defense system. At least not yet.

It is designed to detect and track any potential unfriendlies approaching or entering US airspace, particularly aircraft such as bombers but I suppose that can include space ships, too.

They only scramble fighters to intercept aircraft. No point in trying to intercept an ICBM coming in at Mach 5 with an F-16. It would be a one in a million shot.

Correct, it's not actually a missle 'defense' system, but they do 'track' missles.

 

[Yossarian]

If Santa flies through a presidential TFR by mistake they'll definitely send F-16's after him

 

[compudog]

Norwegian Agency for Development Co-Operation???????

LASER
Light Amplification by Stilmulated Emissions of Radiation

 

[BeauJangles]

I thought NORAD could track weapon launches from anywhere in the world via the new satillites?

 

[clicknext]

Originally posted by: Cyberian

Originally posted by: tcsenter

It stands for North American Aerospace Defense Command, but why?? Shouldn't it be NAADC then? What is NORAD supposed to mean??

NORAD is not a missile defense system. At least not yet.

It is designed to detect and track any potential unfriendlies approaching or entering US airspace, particularly aircraft such as bombers but I suppose that can include space ships, too.

They only scramble fighters to intercept aircraft. No point in trying to intercept an ICBM coming in at Mach 5 with an F-16. It would be a one in a million shot.

Correct, it's not actually a missle 'defense' system, but they do 'track' missles.

lol, yeah, that's what I meant.. though I made it sound like they shoot down missiles with their super lasers...

I thought NORAD was made originally to track and provide warning of missiles from the soviet union during the cold war...

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: ReiAyanami
Santa has anti-missile railgun lasers mounted to his sled, he cannot be shot down. The children of the kids at Norad got no presents on year...

Lasers don't come out of railguns you fool