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 stationed space control weapons in orbit.
A U.S. Space Command official described the announcement as a landmark moment.
China and Russia have responded.
The announcement breaks years of official silence. Those weapons are currently up there.
The military would not disclose what kinds of weapons or how many are up there. The official statement contained no explanation. That detail remains classified. The exact number is not public.
The acknowledgment has gone public. Now the world knows.
The U.S. military has not described what those weapons do. What those weapons do exactly has not been explained.