{"id":80643,"date":"2026-09-16T18:31:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T22:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=80643"},"modified":"2026-09-16T18:33:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T22:33:05","slug":"us-confirms-for-first-time-it-has-deployed-weapons-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=80643","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>US confirms for first time it has deployed weapons in space<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80644\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-16-at-6.30.19-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"733\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-16-at-6.30.19-PM.png 733w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-16-at-6.30.19-PM-300x183.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 733px) 100vw, 733px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The US has deployed weapons in space, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-military\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">US military<\/a>\u00a0has confirmed, in an extraordinary public announcement that analysts warn will accelerate a high-risk arms race with Russia and China in Earth\u2019s orbit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The US secretary of the air force, Troy Meink, said Washington had active \u201con-orbit\u201d weapons, meaning they had been deployed and were circling the globe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cToday, we continue to ensure we remain ready to meet the challenges of evolving threats wherever they exist,\u201d Meink said on Monday at the annual Air,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/space\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Space<\/a>, Cyber conference. \u201cThis is why the United States now has, on-orbit, space-control weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Meink said he would not go into the \u201cspecifics\u201d of the weapons. However, a US Space Force spokesperson said space control could refer to \u201cemploying kinetic [combat] and non-kinetic means to affect adversary capabilities\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2026\/sep\/15\/us-confirms-first-time-it-has-deployed-weapons-space\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2026\/sep\/15\/us-confirms-first-time-it-has-deployed-weapons-space<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80648,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80643\/revisions\/80648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}