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 described the announcement as a landmark moment.
China and Russia have weighed in.
The announcement breaks years of official silence. Those weapons are currently up there.
The military did not say what kinds of weapons or how many are up there. The official statement gave no details. That detail is still under wraps. The exact number is unknown.
The acknowledgment is finally official. Now the world knows.
The U.S. military did not clarify what those weapons do. What those weapons do exactly is still unclear.