Orbital Pictures Depict Iran's Naval Forces and Nuclear Facilities Targeted by US-Israeli Strikes.

A series of American and Israeli airstrikes has reportedly eliminated or harmed no fewer than eleven warships belonging to Iran starting the weekend, new aerial photos reveal, with missile bases and nuclear sites also sustaining hits.

Pictures of the southerly Konarak naval naval base and the Bandar Abbas facility, which is located on the strategic Hormuz Strait and is home to the main command of the Iranian navy, depict smoke billowing from multiple ships on the start of the week.

Maritime Assets Sustained Significant Losses

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

Analytical reports suggest that at least five ships at Bandar Abbas were "damaged or eliminated". Photos of the south end of the port show smoke emanating from the IRINS Makran, while additional ships are visibly harmed, with one of them seen burning.

Over at Konarak, images reveal several damaged vessels, with expert review pointing to impacts on a half-dozen warships. Photos from Monday also show that multiple buildings at the base have been destroyed.

"For many years the Iran's leadership has disrupted global maritime traffic," a senior US military official declared. "At present, there is no Iranian ship at sea in the Persian Gulf, Hormuz Strait or Gulf of Oman, and we will not stop."

A number of ships allegedly sunk may have been concealed in satellite images by cloud or smoke, or struck at sea, and have not been independently verified. Other accounts suggested that an Iranian vessel was going down off the coast of Sri Lanka's waters, leading to a search and rescue mission.

Missile Bases and Atomic Locations Hit

The destruction of Tehran's launch facilities and the prevention of nuclear weapons development were stated as additional goals of the military strikes. Satellite images also revealed damage at the southern Khorgu base and north-western Tabriz missile facilities, and at the Konarak air base, where weapons bunkers and fortifications were hit.

At the Choqa Balk-e drone drone base to the west of the city of Kermanshah, extensive damage was observed to storage buildings, underground facilities and unmanned aircraft systems.

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

Of particular note, the latest wave of strikes have reportedly hit sites at Natanz – long said to be at the core of the country's atomic program. The UN's atomic energy body stated that the damaged buildings were used for entry to the site's underground nuclear plant and that "no radiological consequence" was anticipated.

Wider Fallout and Assessment

Military analysts indicated that the strikes appeared to have "greatly reduced" the Iranian navy's capability to sustain standard operations using its largest vessels. Nevertheless, it was stressed that Tehran retains the ability to launch unconventional attacks at sea through the use of drones, small submarines and its so-called "clandestine network" of oil ships.

The total scope of the damage caused to Iran's defense facilities has yet to be fully assessed, with strikes said to be ongoing. Imagery also indicates considerable damage to the headquarters of the Iran's Revolutionary Guards in the capital Tehran.

Numerous of public facilities also seem to have been struck in the capital city and across the country after the hostilities escalated. Reports of deaths from inside Iran suggest that hundreds of civilians may have been fatally injured in the strikes.

As the situation develops, monitoring of space-based data will persist to document the evolving scope of damage.