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A wave of American and Israeli airstrikes has reportedly sunk or crippled a minimum of 11 Iran's navy ships since Saturday, freshly analyzed orbital imagery demonstrate, with missile bases and atomic facilities also being targeted.

Photographs of the southerly Konarak military port and the Bandar Abbas port facility, which overlooks the strategic Hormuz Strait and is home to the main command of the Iran's naval force, reveal plumes of smoke rising from several warships on the start of the week.

Naval Assets Incurred Major Losses

Among the ships sunk was the Makran, Iran's biggest warship which had been used as a drone carrier. Satellite images displayed black smoke pouring from the ship which had been moored at the Bandar Abbas naval base.

Analytical reports suggest that at least five vessels at Bandar Abbas were "hit or sunk". Photos of the southern part of the port show smoke rising from the IRINS Makran, while two other ships are visibly impacted, with one seen burning.

Over at the Konarak base, photos show multiple stricken vessels, with intelligence reports identifying strikes against six vessels. Pictures taken on Monday also demonstrate that several facilities at the installation have been destroyed.

"For a long time the Iran's leadership has disrupted commercial vessels," a senior US military official said. "At present, there is no Iranian ship underway in the Persian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz or Sea of Oman, and we will not stop."

Some ships reportedly sunk may have been obscured in satellite images by haze or plumes, or hit in open waters, and have yet to be fully confirmed. Additional information stated that a ship from Iran was going down near Sri Lankan waters, prompting a rescue operation.

Rocket Sites and Atomic Locations Attacked

Neutralizing Tehran's launch facilities and the prevention of nuclear weapons development were stated as further objectives of the air campaign. Satellite images also showed strikes on the southern Khorgu and north-western Tabriz facilities, and at the Konarak air base, where weapons bunkers and bunkers were hit.

Over at the Choqa Balk-e UAV facility west of the city of Kermanshah, extensive destruction was identified to sheds, underground facilities and drone launch equipment.

Impact was also observed at a radar site at the Zahedan airbase airbase in eastern Iran, near the frontier with Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Significantly, the new round of attacks have apparently targeted installations at Natanz – considered at the heart of Iran's nuclear programme. The UN's atomic energy body commented that the damaged structures were used for access to the facility's underground enrichment facility and that "no radiological consequence" was anticipated.

Wider Fallout and Assessment

Military analysts indicated that the attacks appeared to have "significantly degraded" the Iran's naval capability to sustain conventional attacks using its biggest vessels. Nevertheless, it was stressed that Iran maintains the capacity to launch irregular strikes at sea through the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, small submarines and its so-called "shadow fleet" of oil ships.

The overall scope of the destruction caused to Iranian military facilities is still uncertain, with strikes said to be continuing. Pictures also indicates extensive damage to the headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the capital Tehran.

A significant number of public facilities also are reported to have been damaged in the capital and across Iran since the conflict began. Reports of deaths from inside Iran state that a high number of civilians may have been lost their lives in the bombardment.

As the situation develops, review of aerial photographs will carry on to assess the evolving scope of damage.