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Multiple American and Israeli strikes has reportedly destroyed or damaged at least eleven Iranian naval vessels starting the weekend, new aerial photos reveal, with rocket sites and enrichment plants also sustaining hits.

Pictures of the southern Konarak naval military port and the Bandar Abbas facility, which sits on the Strait of Hormuz and is home to the headquarters of the Iranian navy, show plumes of smoke rising from several vessels on Monday and Tuesday.

Maritime Fleet Incurred Significant Losses

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

Analytical evaluations indicate that at least five vessels at Bandar Abbas were "hit or sunk". Imagery of the south end of the port depict plumes ascending from the IRINS Makran, while another pair of ships appear to be impacted, with one of them seen burning.

At the Konarak base, photos display several damaged vessels, with intelligence reports pointing to damage to a half-dozen warships. Images taken on Monday also demonstrate that multiple buildings at the installation have been demolished.

"For a long time the Iran's leadership has harassed commercial vessels," a senior US military official declared. "Today, there is not one Iranian vessel underway in the Arabian Gulf, Hormuz Strait or Gulf of Oman, and we will persist."

A number of vessels reportedly sunk may have been hidden in aerial photos by weather conditions or battle damage, or hit in open waters, and have not been conclusively proven. Other accounts stated that an Iranian vessel was foundering near Sri Lankan waters, leading to a search and rescue mission.

Missile Sites and Atomic Facilities Targeted

The destruction of Tehran's launch facilities and the prevention of nuclear weapons development were stated as other goals of the offensive. Aerial imagery also showed damage at the southern Khorgu base and north-western Tabriz missile facilities, and at the Konarak air base, where rocket warehouses and fortifications were struck.

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

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

Perhaps most notably, the latest wave of attacks have reportedly focused on installations at Natanz – widely believed to be at the heart of Iran's enrichment efforts. A global monitoring agency stated that the damaged structures were used for entry to the site's below-ground enrichment facility and that "no nuclear fallout" was likely.

Broader Fallout and Assessment

Defense experts indicated that the attacks appeared to have "greatly reduced" the Iran's naval capability to carry out standard operations using its largest vessels. However, it was emphasised that Iran still has the option to launch unconventional attacks at sea through the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, mini-submarines and its so-called "ghost fleet" of oil ships.

The total scale of the destruction caused to Iranian military facilities has yet to be fully assessed, with hostilities said to be persisting. Photos also reveals extensive destruction to the headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the capital Tehran.

A significant number of public facilities also appear to have been hit in the capital and across the country since the conflict started. Casualty figures from ground sources suggest that a high number of non-combatants may have been lost their lives in the strikes.

With the conflict ongoing, analysis of space-based data will persist to track the evolving battlefield picture.