After years of official silence, the U.S. Air Force Secretary and the U.S. Space Force have confirmed for the first time that America has placed space control weapons in orbit.
A U.S. Space Command official called the disclosure as a landmark moment.
China and Russia have reacted.
The announcement breaks years of official silence. Those weapons have already been deployed.
The military did not say what kinds of weapons or how many are up there. The official statement offered no specifics. That detail is still under wraps. The exact number is unknown.
The acknowledgment is finally official. Now the world knows.
The U.S. military has not described what those weapons do. What those weapons do exactly has not been explained.