The Space Force currently has “space control weapons” in orbit, Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink revealed today. His remarks are the first time the U.S. military has publicly acknowledged putting offensive capabilities into orbit.
Meink was delivering a keynote address at the Air & Space Forces Association’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference at National Harbor, Maryland on Monday when he opened up about what the Space Force has put into space.
“Today, we continue to ensure we remain ready to meet the challenges of evolving threats wherever they exist.
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Satellite imagery reviewed has shown a large and highly unusual vessel under construction at the Hudong-Zhonghua shipyard in Shanghai, with its configuration strongly indicating that it is intended to operate and support large uncrewed submarines. The vessel appears to be the world’s first dedicated uncrewed submarine mothership, adding a potentially important new dimension to the People’s Liberation Army Navy’s rapidly expanding undersea warfare capabilities.
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Lost in the 25th Anniversary remembrance weekend of 11 SEP 2001 was the fact that there were significant changes on the ground in the festering sore on the other side of the Arabian Peninsula from the Persian Gulf, Yemen.
Bridget Toomey at FDD’s Long War Journal has a good summary.
On September 10, the Houthis seized the strategic port city of Mocha on Yemen’s southern Red Sea coast.
Former Marine Joseph Barna carried the memory of the Navy corpsman who saved his life and the lives of many other Marines during vicious fighting in the Korean War. In interviews and a book he later wrote on corpsmen who served in the war, Barna told the story of a deep stab wound he suffered and the sailor who pulled him into a hut to stitch it closed.
“I was bleeding, ready to fall asleep, and I hear a voice say ‘Joe, Joe, if I don’t stop that bleeding, you’re gonna bleed to death,’” Barma recalled in a 2015 interview, one of many he gave on Kilmer and his time in Korea.
David Cox firmly believed he did nothing wrong.
Cox didn’t dispute that he and nine other Marines hazed Private 1st Class William Alvarado at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba in 1986. They targeted Alvarado after he reported outside of the chain of command that they were involved in illegal fence-line shootings at Cuban soldiers.
A U.S. Space Force Guardian monitors a space effects command and control display at the Combined Space Operations Center, Vandenberg Space Force Base, May 28, 2026. Photo: U.S. Space Force/David Dozoretz
The US Space Force finally confirmed something that the national-security establishment has been hinting at for years: it has put “military weapons” in orbit around the Earth, Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink confirmed at the Air and Space Forces Association’s annual Air, Space & Cyber Conference on Monday.
Denmark will add a further 15 tank transporters to its current fleet in 2026, improving its own armoured mobility as well as that of Nato.
Stephen Losey, Air & Space Forces Magazine
the Air Force’s experience flying F-35s heavily in operations against Iran have showed what the jet can be capable of
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Steve Trimble, AvWeek
U.S. Air Force special operators confirmed on Sept.