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A series of American and Israeli attacks has allegedly sunk or crippled at least eleven Iran's navy ships since the weekend, recently obtained satellite images reveal, with missile bases and enrichment plants also sustaining hits.

Images of the southerly Konarak naval base and the Bandar Abbas port facility, which overlooks the strategic Hormuz Strait and contains the headquarters of the Iran's naval force, show black smoke pouring from multiple ships on Monday and Tuesday.

Naval Assets Incurred Significant Losses

Included in the vessels destroyed was the Makran, the country's biggest warship which had been used as a drone carrier. Orbital photos indicated dark plumes emanating from the ship which had been stationed at the Bandar Abbas base.

Intelligence assessments suggest that no fewer than a quintet of warships at the port were "damaged or eliminated". Imagery of the southern end of the harbor reveal plumes ascending from the IRINS Makran, while additional vessels appear to be damaged, with a single one clearly on fire.

Over at the Konarak base, images display multiple harmed vessels, with analysis identifying damage to a half-dozen warships. Pictures taken on the start of the week also demonstrate that a number of structures at the installation have been leveled.

"For many years the Tehran government has harassed commercial vessels," an American commander stated. "At present, there is no vessel from Iran underway in the Arabian Gulf, Hormuz Strait or Gulf of Oman, and we will continue."

A number of vessels reportedly destroyed may have been hidden in aerial photos by weather conditions or battle damage, or struck at sea, and have yet to be fully confirmed. Additional information stated that a ship from Iran was going down off the coast of Sri Lankan territorial waters, leading to a rescue operation.

Rocket Sites and Nuclear Facilities Targeted

Eliminating Iranian missile bases and the prevention of nuclear weapons development were declared as further aims of the air campaign. Satellite images also revealed strikes on the southern Khorgu and north-western Tabriz missile bases, and at the Konarak air base, where rocket warehouses and fortifications were struck.

At the Choqa Balk-e UAV facility to the west of the city of Kermanshah, widespread destruction was identified to sheds, underground facilities and UAV launching apparatus.

Damage was also noted at a surveillance station at the Zahedan military airport in eastern parts of the country, near the border with Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Perhaps most notably, the latest wave of strikes have apparently focused on sites at Natanz – widely believed to be at the core of the country's nuclear programme. The UN's atomic energy body stated that the damaged structures were used for entry to the site's below-ground enrichment facility and that "no nuclear fallout" was expected.

Wider Fallout and Assessment

Military analysts suggested that the strikes appeared to have "largely neutralized" the Iranian navy's capacity to carry out conventional attacks using its biggest vessels. But, it was noted that Iran maintains the capacity to launch irregular strikes at sea through the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, small submarines and its so-called "shadow fleet" of tankers.

The overall scope of the destruction caused to Iran's defense facilities has yet to be fully assessed, with hostilities reportedly continuing. Pictures also indicates extensive damage to the main offices of the Iran's Revolutionary Guards in the city of Tehran.

Numerous of non-military structures also seem to have been hit in the capital and throughout the country after the fighting escalated. Toll estimates from ground sources indicate that hundreds of non-combatants may have been fatally injured in the attacks.

With the conflict ongoing, review of satellite imagery will persist to assess the unfolding military landscape.