Not only does the United States have weapons deployed in outer space, but the U.S. Space Force is already utilizing the final frontier in its war fighting.
These are two realities Air Force and Space Force leaders reiterated to civilians and servicemen and women in their respective branches during a joint conference Sept. 14–16, and they said the overall scale of those capabilities was only going to advance.
But what does operating tools and weapons in space during a battle actually look like?
A panel of three Space Force generals shed some light on the current state of what they call space war fighting on Sept. 16, and it appeared to be one focused on survival and sustaining supremacy of operations of both the spacecraft in orbit and the personnel on the ground. …