Orbital Photographs Show Iranian Navy and Nuclear Facilities Damaged by US-Israeli Attacks.

A series of joint strikes has according to analysis sunk or crippled no fewer than 11 Iranian naval vessels starting the weekend, recently obtained satellite images show, with launch facilities and nuclear sites also coming under fire.

Pictures of the southern Konarak naval military port and the Bandar Abbas port installation, which is located on the Strait of Hormuz and contains the headquarters of the Iran's naval force, reveal black smoke pouring from several ships on Monday and Tuesday.

Naval Fleet Sustained Substantial Losses

Among the targets eliminated was the IRINS Makran, Iran's most sizable ship which had served as a unmanned aerial vehicle platform. Aerial imagery showed black smoke rising from the vessel which had been docked at the Bandar Abbas base.

Analytical assessments suggest that at least five vessels at the port were "hit or sunk". Photos of the south end of the port show plumes ascending from the Makran, while another pair of vessels appear to be impacted, with one clearly on fire.

At Konarak, images display multiple damaged vessels, with intelligence reports pointing to damage to six ships. Pictures from the start of the week also demonstrate that multiple structures at the installation have been demolished.

"For decades the Tehran government has disrupted international shipping," a senior US military official declared. "At present, there is not a single Iranian ship at sea in the Persian Gulf, Hormuz Strait or Gulf of Oman, and we will persist."

Some ships reportedly sunk may have been concealed in satellite images by haze or plumes, or struck at sea, and have not been independently verified. Separate reports indicated that an Iranian vessel was going down near Sri Lanka's waters, resulting in a search and rescue mission.

Rocket Sites and Nuclear Locations Hit

The destruction of Iranian missile bases and the prevention of atomic bomb programs were stated as further aims of the air campaign. Satellite images also showed strikes on the southerly Khorgu base and northwestern Tabriz facilities, and at the Konarak base, where rocket warehouses and bunkers were hit.

Over at the Choqa Balk-e drone drone base to the west of Kermanshah, widespread destruction was observed to warehouses, bunkers and unmanned aircraft systems.

Impact was also seen at a radar installation at the Zahedan airbase in eastern Iran, close to the border with Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Significantly, the most recent series of attacks have reportedly hit facilities at Natanz – widely believed to be at the core of the country's enrichment efforts. A global monitoring agency commented that the affected buildings were used for entry to the site's below-ground nuclear plant and that "no radiological consequence" was anticipated.

Wider Impact and Analysis

Defense experts suggested that the strikes appeared to have "significantly degraded" the Iranian navy's capacity to carry out conventional attacks using its biggest warships. However, it was noted that Iran still has the capacity to launch unconventional attacks at sea through the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, small submarines and its so-called "ghost fleet" of oil ships.

The total scale of the damage caused to Iranian military infrastructure is still uncertain, with hostilities said to be ongoing. Pictures also shows widespread damage to the main offices of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the city of Tehran.

A large number of non-military structures also appear to have been struck in the capital city and throughout the country since the hostilities escalated. Reports of deaths from inside Iran indicate that a high number of non-combatants may have been lost their lives in the bombardment.

As the situation develops, review of aerial photographs will continue to assess the unfolding military landscape.