U.S. confirms for first time it has weapons deployed in space
... “It’s a strategic consideration to not disclose what exactly this is,” Juliana Suess at the German Institute of International and Security Affairs and an expert in space security told CNBC.
The capability of the weaponry could range from reversible interference, such as jamming, to kinetic, permanently destructive effects, she said.
“This could be anything. The only thing that we know is that it is based in space, so this is not a sort of missile based on Earth that could hit a satellite in orbit.” ...
