Aerial Images Indicate Iranian Naval Forces and Atomic Sites Damaged by Joint US and Israeli Strikes.

A series of joint strikes has allegedly destroyed or damaged a minimum of eleven Iranian naval vessels since Saturday, recently obtained aerial photos reveal, with launch facilities and enrichment plants also coming under fire.

Images of the southern Konarak naval base and the Bandar Abbas port facility, which sits on the Strait of Hormuz and is home to the main command of the Iran's naval force, show plumes of smoke rising from a number of warships on Monday and Tuesday.

Naval Fleet Incurred Significant Losses

Among the ships sunk was the Makran, Iran's most sizable ship which had been used as a drone carrier. Orbital photos displayed black smoke emanating from the ship which had been stationed at the Bandar Abbas base.

Analytical assessments indicate that at least five ships at the port were "hit or sunk". Photos of the south end of the port show smoke emanating from the Makran, while another pair of ships are visibly impacted, with one of them visibly ablaze.

At Konarak, images show numerous damaged vessels, with intelligence reports pointing to strikes against a half-dozen warships. Pictures from the start of the week also show that multiple buildings at the installation have been destroyed.

"For many years the Iranian regime has harassed commercial vessels," an American commander said. "Today, there is not one Iranian vessel operational in the Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz or Gulf of Oman, and we will continue."

Some vessels reportedly destroyed may have been hidden in aerial photos by haze or plumes, or struck at sea, and have yet to be fully confirmed. Other accounts indicated that one Iranian ship was sinking off the coast of Sri Lanka's waters, prompting a search and rescue mission.

Rocket Installations and Nuclear Locations Attacked

Eliminating Iran's rocket sites and the hindering of enrichment activities were listed as other objectives of the military strikes. Satellite images also showed strikes on the southern Khorgu and northwestern Tabriz facilities, and at the Konarak air base, where missile storage facilities and fortifications were hit.

At the Choqa Balk-e unmanned aircraft site to the west of Kermanshah, extensive damage was seen to storage buildings, underground facilities and drone launch equipment.

Impact was also noted at a radar site at the Zahedan military airport in eastern parts of the country, close to the frontier with neighboring nations.

Perhaps most notably, the most recent series of strikes have apparently targeted facilities at Natanz – long said to be at the core of the country's atomic program. An international watchdog commented that the affected buildings were used for access to the site's underground enrichment facility and that "no radiological consequence" was anticipated.

Broader Fallout and Analysis

Observers indicated that the strikes appeared to have "greatly reduced" the Iranian navy's capacity to conduct standard operations using its most significant vessels. However, it was stressed that Tehran maintains the capacity to launch unconventional attacks at sea through the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, midget subs and its so-called "ghost fleet" of oil ships.

The overall scope of the destruction caused to Iran's defense infrastructure remains unclear, with hostilities said to be ongoing. Photos also reveals widespread destruction to the headquarters of the Iran's Revolutionary Guards in the capital Tehran.

A large number of public facilities also seem to have been hit in the capital and throughout the country after the conflict began. Casualty figures from inside Iran state that many hundreds of civilians may have been fatally injured in the attacks.

Amid continuing hostilities, monitoring of space-based data will carry on to track the changing scope of damage.