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A series of American and Israeli airstrikes has reportedly sunk or crippled no fewer than eleven Iran's navy ships since the weekend, freshly analyzed satellite images demonstrate, with rocket sites and atomic facilities also being targeted.

Photographs of the southerly Konarak naval naval base and the Bandar Abbas port installation, which sits on the Strait of Hormuz and houses the main command of the Iran's naval force, show smoke billowing from multiple vessels on Monday and Tuesday.

Maritime Fleet Sustained Major Damage

Included in the targets eliminated was the Makran, the country's biggest warship which had served as a drone carrier. Satellite images displayed thick smoke rising from the vessel which had been docked at the Bandar Abbas naval base.

Intelligence assessments suggest that no fewer than five vessels at the port were "damaged or eliminated". Pictures of the southern part of the port reveal smoke emanating from the IRINS Makran, while additional vessels seem to be damaged, with one of them visibly ablaze.

At Konarak, photos display multiple harmed vessels, with expert review pointing to impacts on six vessels. Pictures from Monday also show that a number of facilities at the installation have been leveled.

"For decades the Tehran government has harassed international shipping," the head of US Central Command said. "Today, there is not a single vessel from Iran underway in the Arabian Gulf, Hormuz Strait or Gulf of Oman, and we will continue."

Some ships reportedly destroyed may have been hidden in satellite images by cloud or smoke, or struck at sea, and have not been independently verified. Other accounts indicated that an Iranian vessel was going down off the coast of Sri Lankan waters, leading to a rescue operation.

Rocket Sites and Atomic Facilities Hit

Eliminating Iran's rocket sites and the hindering of atomic bomb programs were listed as other objectives of the military strikes. Satellite images also showed damage at the southerly Khorgu and north-western Tabriz missile bases, and at the Konarak air air base, where rocket warehouses and fortifications were targeted.

Over at the Choqa Balk-e drone drone base to the west of the city of Kermanshah, significant destruction was observed to warehouses, underground facilities and unmanned aircraft systems.

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

Significantly, the latest wave of attacks have reportedly hit sites at Natanz – widely believed to be at the center of Iran's enrichment efforts. The UN's atomic energy body commented that the affected structures were used for access to the facility's underground enrichment facility and that "no nuclear fallout" was expected.

Wider Consequences and Assessment

Observers indicated that the attacks appeared to have "greatly reduced" the Iran's naval capacity to sustain standard operations using its largest vessels. Nevertheless, it was stressed that Iran maintains the ability to launch asymmetric warfare at sea through the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, midget subs and its so-called "shadow fleet" of oil ships.

The total scope of the destruction caused to Iranian military facilities is still uncertain, with hostilities reportedly ongoing. Pictures also shows considerable destruction to the main offices of the the IRGC in the city of Tehran.

Numerous of civilian buildings also seem to have been hit in the capital city and across Iran since the fighting started. Toll estimates from inside Iran state that hundreds of non-combatants may have been lost their lives in the attacks.

As the situation develops, monitoring of satellite imagery will persist to track the unfolding battlefield picture.