{"id":5155,"date":"2026-09-16T00:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T05:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/16\/u-s-confirms-weapons-are-now-deployed-in-space\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T00:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T05:28:12","slug":"u-s-confirms-weapons-are-now-deployed-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/16\/u-s-confirms-weapons-are-now-deployed-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Confirms Weapons Are Now Deployed in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/f7reqMObQ4E\/maxresdefault.webp)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"U.S. acknowledges space weapons deployment for first time\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f7reqMObQ4E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 September 15, 2026 (STL.News) The United States has publicly acknowledged for the first time that it has weapons deployed in Earth orbit, marking a major shift in how the Pentagon discusses military operations in space and bringing a largely classified competition involving the United States, China and Russia further into public view. Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink made the disclosure Sept. 14 during the Air &amp; Space Forces Association\u2019s 2026 Air, Space &amp; Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Maryland. \u201cWe are increasing readiness against existing threats, and the United States has on-orbit space<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/u-s-confirms-weapons-are-now-deployed-in-space\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 September 15, 2026 (STL.News) The United States has publicly acknowledged for the first time that it has weapons deployed in Earth orbit, marking a major shift in how the Pentagon discusses military operations in space and bringing&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5157,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155\/revisions\/5157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}