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A series of American and Israeli attacks has according to analysis sunk or crippled at least 11 warships belonging to Iran starting the weekend, new orbital imagery reveal, with launch facilities and atomic facilities also being targeted.

Photographs of the southern Konarak naval military port and the Bandar Abbas port installation, which is located on the strategic Hormuz Strait and houses the main command of the Iran's naval force, show black smoke pouring from a number of warships on Monday and Tuesday.

Naval Assets Incurred Major Losses

Included in the vessels destroyed was the Makran, Iran's biggest warship which had been used as a unmanned aerial vehicle platform. Satellite images displayed black smoke emanating from the ship which had been docked at the Bandar Abbas base.

Intelligence evaluations suggest that at least a quintet of warships at the port were "damaged or eliminated". Photos of the southern part of the harbor reveal smoke rising from the IRINS Makran, while another pair of ships appear to be impacted, with one of them clearly on fire.

Over at Konarak, photos display multiple damaged ships, with intelligence reports identifying damage to six vessels. Photos taken on Monday also demonstrate that a number of buildings at the installation have been destroyed.

"For many years the Tehran government has disrupted commercial vessels," the head of US Central Command stated. "At present, there is no Iranian ship at sea in the Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz or Sea of Oman, and we will persist."

A number of ships reportedly sunk may have been hidden in satellite images by haze or plumes, or targeted offshore, and have yet to be fully confirmed. Additional information suggested that one Iranian ship was going down near Sri Lankan waters, prompting a search and rescue mission.

Missile Installations and Nuclear Facilities Hit

Eliminating Iran's rocket sites and the prevention of nuclear weapons development were declared as additional goals of the military strikes. Satellite images also depicted impacts against the southerly Khorgu base and north-western Tabriz missile missile bases, and at the Konarak air air base, where weapons bunkers and bunkers were struck.

At the Choqa Balk-e UAV facility to the west of Kermanshah, significant destruction was observed to storage buildings, underground facilities and drone launch equipment.

Impact was also noted at a radar site at the Zahedan airbase airbase in eastern Iran, close to the border with Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Perhaps most notably, the most recent series of attacks have apparently hit sites at Natanz – widely believed to be at the center of Iran's atomic program. A global monitoring agency stated that the damaged buildings were used for access to the facility's underground enrichment facility and that "no radiological consequence" was anticipated.

Broader Consequences and Assessment

Military analysts stated that the offensive appeared to have "greatly reduced" the Iranian navy's capacity to sustain conventional attacks using its largest warships. Nevertheless, it was emphasised that Tehran retains the option to launch asymmetric warfare at sea through the use of drones, mini-submarines and its so-called "ghost fleet" of tankers.

The full extent of the destruction caused to Iranian military facilities has yet to be fully assessed, with attacks said to be persisting. Photos also reveals extensive damage to the main offices of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the city of Tehran.

A large number of non-military structures also appear to have been damaged in the capital and throughout the country after the hostilities began. Casualty figures from ground sources state that a high number of non-combatants may have been killed in the strikes.

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