Satellite Photographs Indicate Iran's Navy and Atomic Sites Damaged by US-Israeli Airstrikes.

Multiple US and Israeli strikes has according to analysis destroyed or damaged at least eleven Iranian naval vessels since the weekend, recently obtained orbital imagery reveal, with missile bases and atomic facilities also coming under fire.

Pictures of the southern Konarak military port and the Bandar Abbas port facility, which is located on the strategic Hormuz Strait and contains the main command of the Iranian navy, reveal black smoke pouring from multiple vessels on recent days.

Maritime Assets Sustained Significant Damage

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 rising from the ship which had been docked at the Bandar Abbas base.

Intelligence reports suggest that at least five vessels at the port were "damaged or eliminated". Imagery of the south end of the port reveal smoke rising from the IRINS Makran, while another pair of ships are visibly impacted, with a single one clearly on fire.

Over at Konarak, images show numerous stricken ships, with intelligence reports identifying damage to a half-dozen warships. Images taken on the start of the week also demonstrate that several structures at the base have been destroyed.

"For many years the Iranian regime has disrupted commercial vessels," a senior US military official declared. "Today, there is no vessel from Iran underway in the Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz or Sea of Oman, and we will persist."

Some ships reportedly destroyed may have been hidden in aerial photos by haze or plumes, or struck at sea, and have not been independently verified. Separate reports stated that an Iranian vessel was sinking off the coast of Sri Lankan waters, prompting a search and rescue mission.

Rocket Sites and Atomic Facilities Targeted

The destruction of Iran's rocket sites and the hindering of nuclear weapons development were listed as further objectives of the air campaign. Aerial imagery also showed damage at the southerly Khorgu base and northwestern Tabriz missile missile bases, and at the Konarak air air base, where missile storage facilities and bunkers were targeted.

Over at the Choqa Balk-e drone base to the west of Kermanshah, significant destruction was seen to warehouses, bunkers and unmanned aircraft systems.

Impact was also seen at a surveillance station at the Zahedan military airport in eastern Iran, near the border with neighboring nations.

Perhaps most notably, the latest wave of strikes have apparently targeted facilities at the Natanz complex – considered at the core of the country's atomic program. The UN's atomic energy body said that the damaged structures were used for entry to the facility's underground enrichment facility and that "no nuclear fallout" was likely.

Broader Fallout and Assessment

Defense experts stated that the strikes appeared to have "greatly reduced" the Iran's naval capacity to carry out traditional warfare using its biggest vessels. But, it was stressed that Tehran retains the ability to launch irregular strikes at sea through the use of drones, midget subs and its so-called "ghost fleet" of tankers.

The full scale of the destruction caused to Iran's defense facilities remains unclear, with strikes said to be persisting. Photos also indicates widespread destruction to the command center of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the capital Tehran.

A large number of non-military structures also seem to have been damaged in the capital city and across the country since the hostilities escalated. Reports of deaths from local officials state that many hundreds of civilians may have been fatally injured in the strikes.

With the conflict ongoing, review of space-based data will continue to document the unfolding scope of damage.