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 stationed 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 contained no explanation. That detail is still under wraps. The exact number has not been given.
The acknowledgment is finally official. Now the world knows.
The U.S. military has not explained what those weapons do. What those weapons do exactly remains unclear.