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“

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.