BIG: The United States has just approved that it has weapons in orbit for the first time ever.

BIG: The United States has just approved that it has weapons in orbit for the first time ever.

Air Force Secretary Minec:

The United States now has orbital space weapons capable of protecting the joint force from hostile enemy actions.

He refused to say what type, how many, and when they were launched.

Space Force says they can be used for "disruption, degradation, and even destruction" in offensive or defensive operations.

Experts think that space-based or electronic warfare disruptors are likely kinetic weapons that create debris problems.

Thus ends decades of official uncertainty.

The first depiction of the Space Force actually shows a space plane killing an enemy satellite.