After years of official silence, the U.S. Air Force Secretary and the U.S. Space Force have acknowledged for the first time that America has placed space control weapons in orbit.
A U.S. Space Command official described the announcement as a landmark moment.
China and Russia have weighed in.
The announcement closes years of official silence. Those weapons are already in orbit.
The military would not disclose what kinds of weapons or how many are up there. The official statement offered no specifics. That detail remains classified. The exact number has not been given.
The acknowledgment is out. Now the world is aware.
The U.S. military did not clarify what those weapons do. What those weapons do exactly is still unclear.