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 reacted.
The announcement ends years of official silence. Those weapons have already been deployed.
The military declined to say 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 is unknown.
The acknowledgment is finally official. Now the world is aware.
The U.S. military has not described what those weapons do. What those weapons do exactly has not been explained.