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Multiple joint airstrikes has according to analysis eliminated or harmed no fewer than eleven Iranian naval vessels since Saturday, new orbital imagery show, with missile bases and nuclear sites also being targeted.

Pictures of the southern Konarak naval military port and the Bandar Abbas installation, which overlooks the strategic Hormuz Strait and contains the headquarters of the Iranian navy, show smoke billowing from several warships on recent days.

Naval Assets Incurred Significant Damage

Among the targets eliminated was the IRINS Makran, Iran's biggest warship which had served as a unmanned aerial vehicle platform. Satellite images showed thick smoke pouring from the ship which had been docked at the Bandar Abbas naval base.

Analytical reports indicate that no fewer than five vessels at Bandar Abbas were "struck or destroyed". Photos of the southern part of the port reveal plumes ascending from the Makran, while two other vessels seem to be harmed, with one visibly ablaze.

Over at Konarak, photos show multiple stricken vessels, with analysis pointing to impacts on a half-dozen warships. Pictures from Monday also show that a number of structures at the base have been destroyed.

"For decades the Iran's leadership has disrupted global maritime traffic," a senior US military official stated. "At present, there is not a single Iranian ship underway in the Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz or Sea of Oman, and we will not stop."

A number of ships reportedly sunk may have been hidden in aerial photos by cloud or smoke, or targeted offshore, and have not been independently verified. Additional information stated that a ship from Iran was sinking near Sri Lanka's waters, resulting in a search and rescue mission.

Missile Bases and Nuclear Facilities Targeted

Neutralizing Tehran's launch facilities and the stopping atomic bomb programs were stated as other goals of the military strikes. Aerial imagery also showed strikes on the southern Khorgu and northwestern Tabriz facilities, and at the Konarak base, where missile storage facilities and bunkers were targeted.

At the Choqa Balk-e UAV facility to the west of Kermanshah, extensive destruction was observed to storage buildings, underground facilities and UAV launching apparatus.

Damage was also observed at a radar installation at the Zahedan airbase airbase in eastern Iran, close to the frontier with neighboring nations.

Significantly, the latest wave of strikes have apparently hit sites at Natanz – long said to be at the core of Iran's nuclear programme. An international watchdog commented that the affected structures were used for entry to the facility's underground enrichment facility and that "no radiological consequence" was anticipated.

Broader Impact and Analysis

Defense experts stated that the attacks appeared to have "significantly degraded" the Iran's naval capacity to carry out standard operations using its most significant warships. But, it was noted that Tehran retains the option to launch irregular strikes at sea through the use of drones, midget subs and its so-called "shadow fleet" of oil ships.

The full extent of the destruction caused to Iran's defense facilities remains unclear, with strikes reportedly ongoing. Imagery also reveals widespread destruction to the command center of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the capital Tehran.

A large number of civilian buildings also seem to have been struck in the capital and throughout Iran after the fighting started. Casualty figures from inside Iran state that many hundreds of civilians may have been killed in the attacks.

Amid continuing hostilities, monitoring of aerial photographs will continue to document the unfolding military landscape.