Aerial Imagery Indicate Iranian Navy and Atomic Sites Damaged by US-Israeli Strikes.

A wave of US and Israeli attacks has reportedly destroyed or damaged at least eleven Iranian naval vessels since Saturday, new satellite images reveal, with missile bases and nuclear sites also sustaining hits.

Images of the southern Konarak naval base and the Bandar Abbas installation, which is located on the strategic Hormuz Strait and contains the headquarters of the Iran's naval force, reveal black smoke pouring from multiple warships on the start of the week.

Naval Assets Sustained Significant Damage

Included in the vessels destroyed was the Makran, the country's largest naval vessel which had been used as a unmanned aerial vehicle platform. Orbital photos displayed dark plumes rising from the vessel which had been moored at the Bandar Abbas naval base.

Intelligence evaluations indicate that at least a quintet of warships at Bandar Abbas were "hit or sunk". Imagery of the southern end of the port show plumes ascending from the IRINS Makran, while another pair of vessels appear to be harmed, with one of them visibly ablaze.

At Konarak, images show several stricken vessels, with intelligence reports pointing to impacts on six vessels. Images from Monday also demonstrate that a number of structures at the base have been demolished.

"For decades the Iran's leadership has harassed commercial vessels," a senior US military official said. "At present, there is no Iranian vessel at sea in the Persian Gulf, Hormuz Strait or Sea of Oman, and we will continue."

Some ships allegedly destroyed may have been hidden in satellite images by haze or plumes, or targeted offshore, and have not been conclusively proven. Additional information stated that a ship from Iran was sinking off the coast of Sri Lanka's waters, leading to a search and rescue mission.

Rocket Bases and Nuclear Facilities Attacked

Eliminating Tehran's launch facilities and the stopping atomic bomb programs were declared as other objectives of the military strikes. Aerial imagery also depicted strikes on the southern Khorgu base and north-western Tabriz missile facilities, and at the Konarak air air base, where weapons bunkers and fortifications were hit.

Over at the Choqa Balk-e drone UAV facility west of the city of Kermanshah, widespread destruction was observed to storage buildings, underground facilities and unmanned aircraft systems.

Destruction was also seen at a surveillance station at the Zahedan airbase in eastern Iran, close to the border with neighboring nations.

Perhaps most notably, the most recent series of strikes have reportedly targeted installations at the Natanz complex – widely believed to be at the core of the country's nuclear programme. A global monitoring agency said that the damaged buildings were used for entry to the facility's underground enrichment facility and that "no nuclear fallout" was expected.

Wider Fallout and Assessment

Defense experts stated that the attacks appeared to have "largely neutralized" the Iranian navy's ability to carry out standard operations using its biggest warships. Nevertheless, it was noted that Iran retains the capacity to launch unconventional attacks at sea through the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, small submarines and its so-called "clandestine network" of tankers.

The total scope of the destruction caused to Iran's defense facilities is still uncertain, with hostilities said to be ongoing. Imagery also shows extensive destruction to the command center of the the IRGC in the city of Tehran.

A large number of public facilities also are reported to have been hit in the capital and across the country after the conflict started. Toll estimates from ground sources state that many hundreds of non-combatants may have been killed in the attacks.

Amid continuing hostilities, analysis of space-based data will persist to assess the changing scope of damage.