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A wave of US and Israeli airstrikes has reportedly destroyed or damaged at least eleven Iran's navy ships since the weekend, freshly analyzed aerial photos reveal, with rocket sites and enrichment plants also being targeted.

Photographs of the southern Konarak naval naval base and the Bandar Abbas facility, which overlooks the strategic Hormuz Strait and contains the headquarters of the Iran's naval force, show smoke billowing from several warships on the start of the week.

Maritime Fleet Sustained Significant Damage

Among the ships sunk was the Makran, the country's biggest warship which had been used as a unmanned aerial vehicle platform. Aerial imagery displayed dark plumes pouring from the ship which had been moored at the Bandar Abbas base.

Analytical reports suggest that at least five ships at the port were "struck or destroyed". Photos of the southern part of the harbor show smoke emanating from the IRINS Makran, while additional ships are visibly impacted, with one of them seen burning.

At the Konarak base, images reveal multiple damaged vessels, with intelligence reports pointing to impacts on six ships. Images taken on the start of the week also demonstrate that multiple facilities at the installation have been demolished.

"For many years the Iranian regime has harassed international shipping," the head of US Central Command stated. "Today, there is not one Iranian ship underway in the Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz or Sea of Oman, and we will continue."

Some vessels allegedly sunk may have been obscured in satellite images by cloud or smoke, or targeted offshore, and have yet to be fully confirmed. Other accounts indicated that a ship from Iran was sinking near Sri Lanka's waters, prompting a rescue operation.

Rocket Installations and Nuclear Locations Attacked

Neutralizing Iranian missile bases and the hindering of nuclear weapons development were declared as further aims of the air campaign. Satellite images also depicted impacts against the southerly Khorgu and north-western Tabriz missile facilities, and at the Konarak air air base, where weapons bunkers and bunkers were struck.

Over at the Choqa Balk-e unmanned aircraft site west of the city of Kermanshah, widespread damage was observed to storage buildings, underground facilities and drone launch equipment.

Impact was also noted at a radar installation at the Zahedan airbase airbase in eastern Iran, near the frontier with neighboring nations.

Significantly, the new round of strikes have reportedly hit facilities at the Natanz complex – considered at the core of Iran's enrichment efforts. The UN's atomic energy body said that the affected buildings were used for access to the site's underground nuclear plant and that "no nuclear fallout" was anticipated.

Broader Fallout and Assessment

Observers stated that the attacks appeared to have "greatly reduced" the Iranian navy's capability to conduct traditional warfare using its largest vessels. However, it was stressed that Tehran still has the capacity to launch asymmetric warfare at sea through the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, mini-submarines and its so-called "ghost fleet" of tankers.

The total scale of the destruction caused to Iranian military infrastructure remains unclear, with attacks reportedly continuing. Photos also shows widespread destruction to the headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the city of Tehran.

A large number of civilian buildings also appear to have been damaged in the capital and across Iran after the conflict started. Toll estimates from inside Iran suggest that many hundreds of civilians may have been fatally injured in the bombardment.

With the conflict ongoing, review of aerial photographs will carry on to document the unfolding battlefield picture.