After years of official silence, the U.S. Air Force Secretary and the U.S. Space Force have admitted for the first time that America has put space control weapons in orbit.
A U.S. Space Command official framed the news as a landmark moment.
China and Russia have weighed in.
The announcement breaks years of official silence. Those weapons are already in orbit.
The military declined to say what kinds of weapons or how many are up there. The official statement gave no details. That detail remains classified. The exact number is unknown.
The acknowledgment has gone public. Now the world is aware.
The U.S. military has not explained what those weapons do. What those weapons do exactly remains unclear.