But an unexpected tinge of controversy was thrown into the mix this year when the Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood criticised an animated video on the Norad Santa website.
The clip, which showed two unarmed Canadian F-18 fighter jets briefly escorting Santa’s sleigh, injected “militarism” into a beloved tradition, the children’s advocacy group complained.
It was a criticism that rather bemused those at Norad, not least as this indeed a joint US-Canadian military operation that oversees patrols of the skies. And Norad has long shown its fighter jets in its tracking imagery.
As to Santa’s route, there is of course no advance flight path, but he usually sweeps down from the North Pole, heading across the world from east to west, before looping into the Pacific to Hawaii and a traditional final stop in Alaska en route back to his Arctic home.
英国《每日电讯报》报道,北美防空联合司令部(NORAD)再次启动了一年一度的圣诞老人追踪计划。其位于落基山脚下的总部将不仅通过其精密的雷达监视系统检测飞入美国领空的飞机和导弹,还将与加拿大的军方一道追踪一个独特的飞行体在圣诞前夕的行踪:圣诞老人和他的驯鹿队。
NORAD专门为这项行动设立了“圣诞老人追踪网站”,去年该网站点击率达到2200万,在脸谱网吸引了约120万追随者,主题智能手机软件下载量达到95五次,推特网粉丝数增加了约129万。此外还有11.4万人打进了热线电话。
【美军追踪圣诞老人行踪 第一夫人接听儿童电话】相关文章:
最新
2020-09-15
2020-09-15
2020-09-15
2020-09-15
2020-09-15
2020-09-15