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A series of US and Israeli airstrikes has according to analysis eliminated or harmed no fewer than 11 Iran's navy ships starting Saturday, freshly analyzed satellite images show, with missile bases and enrichment plants also being targeted.

Photographs of the southerly Konarak naval naval base and the Bandar Abbas port facility, which overlooks the Strait of Hormuz and contains the main command of the Iran's naval force, show black smoke pouring from a number of vessels on the start of the week.

Maritime Fleet Sustained Significant Damage

Among the ships sunk was the Makran, the country's most sizable ship which had served as a unmanned aerial vehicle platform. Orbital photos indicated black smoke pouring from the vessel which had been docked at the Bandar Abbas naval base.

Analytical reports indicate that at least a quintet of warships at Bandar Abbas were "hit or sunk". Imagery of the south end of the harbor reveal smoke emanating from the Makran, while two other vessels seem to be impacted, with a single one visibly ablaze.

Over at the Konarak base, images display several harmed ships, with intelligence reports pointing to impacts on six vessels. Images taken on the start of the week also demonstrate that multiple facilities at the installation have been demolished.

"For a long time the Iranian regime has disrupted commercial vessels," a senior US military official stated. "At present, there is not a single Iranian vessel at sea in the Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz or Sea of Oman, and we will continue."

A number of vessels allegedly sunk may have been obscured in aerial photos by cloud or smoke, or hit in open waters, and have yet to be fully confirmed. Other accounts stated that a ship from Iran was going down near Sri Lanka's territorial waters, leading to a rescue operation.

Rocket Bases and Atomic Locations Targeted

The destruction of Iran's rocket sites and the hindering of atomic bomb programs were declared as additional goals of the offensive. Satellite images also depicted damage at the southerly Khorgu and northwestern Tabriz facilities, and at the Konarak air base, where weapons bunkers and bunkers were struck.

At the Choqa Balk-e unmanned aircraft site to the west of the city of Kermanshah, widespread damage was observed to storage buildings, bunkers and drone launch equipment.

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

Significantly, the latest wave of strikes have reportedly targeted facilities at Natanz – considered at the heart of the country's nuclear programme. A global monitoring agency said that the affected structures were used for entry to the site's underground nuclear plant and that "no nuclear fallout" was anticipated.

Broader Fallout and Assessment

Observers indicated that the attacks appeared to have "largely neutralized" the Iran's naval ability to conduct conventional attacks using its most significant warships. However, it was stressed that Tehran maintains the ability to launch unconventional attacks at sea through the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, midget subs and its so-called "clandestine network" of tankers.

The full scope of the destruction caused to Iran's defense facilities remains unclear, with hostilities reportedly continuing. Pictures also indicates widespread damage to the main offices of the Iran's Revolutionary Guards in the capital Tehran.

A large number of public facilities also are reported to have been hit in the capital city and across the country after the conflict started. Toll estimates from local officials state that hundreds of civilians may have been lost their lives in the bombardment.

Amid continuing hostilities, analysis of aerial photographs will carry on to track the changing scope of damage.