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A series of US and Israeli strikes has allegedly sunk or crippled no fewer than 11 warships belonging to Iran since the weekend, freshly analyzed satellite images show, with rocket sites and atomic facilities also sustaining hits.

Photographs of the southern Konarak naval military port and the Bandar Abbas port installation, which sits on the strategic Hormuz Strait and houses the headquarters of the Iranian navy, reveal smoke billowing from a number of warships on recent days.

Naval Forces Sustained Major Damage

Included in the vessels destroyed was the Makran, the country's most sizable ship which had functioned as a unmanned aerial vehicle platform. Orbital photos showed dark plumes emanating from the vessel which had been docked at the Bandar Abbas naval base.

Intelligence reports suggest that at least five ships at Bandar Abbas were "hit or sunk". Pictures of the southern part of the harbor show smoke emanating from the Makran, while additional vessels are visibly harmed, with a single one seen burning.

Over at the Konarak base, images show several harmed vessels, with intelligence reports pointing to impacts on six vessels. Images taken on Monday also indicate that several facilities at the base have been demolished.

"For many years the Tehran government has threatened commercial vessels," the head of US Central Command stated. "Today, there is not a single vessel from Iran underway in the Persian Gulf, Hormuz Strait or Gulf of Oman, and we will persist."

Some ships reportedly destroyed may have been hidden in satellite images by haze or plumes, or hit in open waters, and have yet to be fully confirmed. Additional information suggested that one Iranian ship was sinking off the coast of Sri Lanka's territorial waters, resulting in a rescue operation.

Rocket Bases and Atomic Facilities Hit

Neutralizing Iran's rocket sites and the prevention of enrichment activities were declared as other aims of the offensive. Satellite images also depicted strikes on the southerly Khorgu base and northwestern Tabriz missile facilities, and at the Konarak air base, where missile storage facilities and bunkers were targeted.

At the Choqa Balk-e UAV facility to the west of Kermanshah, significant damage was observed to sheds, bunkers and unmanned aircraft systems.

Damage was also observed at a radar installation at the Zahedan airbase airbase in eastern parts of the country, near the border with Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Of particular note, the new round of attacks have reportedly targeted facilities at the Natanz complex – considered at the core of Iran's nuclear programme. The UN's atomic energy body said that the affected structures were used for access to the facility's below-ground nuclear plant and that "no radiological consequence" was expected.

Wider Impact and Analysis

Defense experts indicated that the attacks appeared to have "significantly degraded" the Iran's naval capacity to conduct traditional warfare using its largest warships. However, it was noted that Iran still has the capacity to launch asymmetric warfare at sea through the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, midget subs and its so-called "ghost fleet" of oil ships.

The overall extent of the destruction caused to Iranian military infrastructure remains unclear, with strikes said to be persisting. Imagery also reveals considerable destruction to the command center of the the IRGC in the city of Tehran.

Numerous of public facilities also seem to have been damaged in the capital city and across Iran since the conflict started. Casualty figures from inside Iran indicate that many hundreds of non-combatants may have been lost their lives in the attacks.

As the situation develops, review of aerial photographs will persist to track the unfolding military landscape.