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 called the disclosure as a landmark moment.
China and Russia have weighed in.
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 stays secret. The exact number is not public.
The acknowledgment has gone public. Now the world knows.
The U.S. military did not clarify what those weapons do. What those weapons do exactly remains unclear.