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 put 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 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 gave no details. That detail is still under wraps. The exact number has not been given.

The acknowledgment has gone public. Now the world is aware.

The U.S. military has not explained what those weapons do. What those weapons do exactly is still unclear.