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Meink said on Monday, the first such public acknowledgment by a Pentagon official after years of preparations to counter potential deployments by Russia and China.</p><p class="css-12m5bll evys1bk0">“We are increasing readiness against existing threats, and the United States has on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the Joint Force against hostile adversary action,” he said at a convention in Maryland, according to a <a class="css-povzk" href="https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4600887/meink-offers-blueprint-for-modernizing-air-space-forces-affordably/" title="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">news release</a> published on the Air Force’s website.</p><p class="css-12m5bll evys1bk0">Mr. Meink did not provide details about the type of weapons or say when they had been deployed. He made his remarks in a keynote speech at the Air, Space and Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Md., an annual forum hosted by the Air and Space Forces Association, a nonprofit organization for members of both services.</p><p class="css-12m5bll evys1bk0">The Space Force did not immediately respond to a request for comment late Monday.</p><p class="css-12m5bll evys1bk0">The Pentagon has long feared that China and Russia <a class="css-povzk" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/us/politics/pentagon-space-military-russia-china.html" title="">are making advances in space operations</a> that could threaten U.S. ground forces as well as American satellites.</p></div><aside class="css-ew4tgv" aria-label="companion column"></aside></div><div data-testid="Dropzone-1"></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn" data-testid="companionColumn-1"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-12m5bll evys1bk0">Guo Jiakun, a spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry, said on Tuesday in response to a question about Mr. Meink’s comments that China opposed an “outer space arms race.”</p><p class="css-12m5bll evys1bk0">“We urge the U.S. side to stop expanding its military force and preparing for war in outer space,” he said in a regular news briefing.</p><p class="css-12m5bll evys1bk0">Dmitri S. Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, said on Tuesday that Russia would seek an international consensus on the demilitarization of space. “We believe that space must be free of any weapons,” he said at a news briefing, according to state media.</p><p class="css-12m5bll evys1bk0">In 2024, The New York Times reported that American intelligence agencies had raised concerns that Russia <a class="css-povzk" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/17/us/politics/russia-nuclear-weapon-space.html" title="">could be planning to put a nuclear weapon in space</a>, a threat that could disrupt satellite networks that are vital to everything from communications to military operations.</p><p class="css-12m5bll evys1bk0">Shortly after President Trump returned to the White House last year, he signed an <a class="css-povzk" href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/the-iron-dome-for-america/" title="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">executive order</a> to expand American air defenses, including the development and deployment of “space-based interceptors.” The project, named the <a class="css-povzk" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/us/politics/trump-golden-dome.html" title="">Golden Dome</a>, would be designed to guard against weapons such as hypersonic missiles, which <a class="css-povzk" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/09/world/europe/hypersonic-missiles-russia-ukraine.html" title="">Russia</a> has deployed in Ukraine.</p></div><aside class="css-ew4tgv" aria-label="companion column"></aside></div><div data-testid="Dropzone-3"></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn" data-testid="companionColumn-2"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-12m5bll evys1bk0">In May, Mr. Trump said that Gen. Michael Guetlein, the vice chief of space operations at the Space Force, would oversee the project.</p><p class="css-12m5bll evys1bk0">The <a class="css-povzk" href="https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/198034/vought-asm-135a-anti-satellite-missile/" title="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">United States</a>, <a class="css-povzk" href="https://www.spacecom.mil/Newsroom/News/Article-Display/Article/2842957/russian-direct-ascent-anti-satellite-missile-test-creates-significant-long-last/" title="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Russia</a> and <a class="css-povzk" href="https://www.swfound.org/publications-and-reports/chinese-direct-ascent-anti-satellite-testing-fact-sheet" title="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">China</a> began testing weapons capable of destroying satellites decades ago, but the United States has since disavowed such arms because they leave destructive debris fields in orbit.</p><p class="css-12m5bll evys1bk0">In recent years, the Air Force started developing “low-debris-causing weapons” capable of disrupting or disabling enemy satellites, Frank Kendall, who served as Air Force secretary under President Joe Biden, told The Times in a <a class="css-povzk" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/us/politics/frank-kendall-air-force.html?eafs_enabled=false" title="">2024 interview</a>.</p><p class="css-12m5bll evys1bk0">Gen. 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