US Army confirms it has 'space control weapons' active in orbit to ensure it 'can operate freely there'
THE SO WHAT
Active but undisclosed "space control weapons" move space from a benign infrastructure layer to a contested operational domain. Any strategy that assumes always-on satellite comms or sensing now needs a degraded-mode plan and redundancy across orbits and providers.
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