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A wave of joint airstrikes has according to analysis destroyed or damaged no fewer than eleven Iran's navy ships since the weekend, new satellite images show, with missile bases and nuclear sites also being targeted.

Images of the southerly Konarak naval naval base and the Bandar Abbas port facility, which sits on the Strait of Hormuz and houses the main command of the Iranian navy, show black smoke pouring from a number of ships on Monday and Tuesday.

Maritime Forces Sustained Substantial Losses

Included in the targets eliminated was the IRINS Makran, Iran's most sizable ship which had served as a drone carrier. Aerial imagery indicated black smoke rising from the vessel which had been stationed at the Bandar Abbas naval base.

Analytical reports indicate that at least five vessels at the port were "struck or destroyed". Imagery of the south end of the port show plumes ascending from the Makran, while another pair of vessels seem to be impacted, with one of them seen burning.

Over at the Konarak base, photos reveal multiple harmed ships, with intelligence reports pointing to impacts on a half-dozen warships. Images from Monday also indicate that a number of facilities at the installation have been destroyed.

"For a long time the Iran's leadership has threatened international shipping," an American commander declared. "Now, there is no Iranian vessel at sea in the Arabian Gulf, Hormuz Strait or Sea of Oman, and we will not stop."

Some ships reportedly destroyed may have been concealed in satellite images by cloud or smoke, or targeted offshore, and have not been conclusively proven. Other accounts stated that an Iranian vessel was going down off the coast of Sri Lankan territorial waters, resulting in a search and rescue mission.

Rocket Installations and Atomic Facilities Attacked

Neutralizing Iran's rocket sites and the prevention of nuclear weapons development were declared as further objectives of the offensive. Satellite images also revealed damage at the southern Khorgu and north-western Tabriz missile missile bases, and at the Konarak air base, where weapons bunkers and bunkers were struck.

Over at the Choqa Balk-e unmanned aircraft site to the west of the city of Kermanshah, significant destruction was identified to sheds, bunkers and UAV launching apparatus.

Impact was also observed at a surveillance station at the Zahedan airbase in eastern Iran, near the frontier with neighboring nations.

Significantly, the most recent series of strikes have apparently focused on installations at the Natanz complex – considered at the heart of Iran's enrichment efforts. The UN's atomic energy body stated that the damaged buildings were used for access to the site's underground enrichment facility and that "no radiological consequence" was likely.

Wider Fallout and Assessment

Military analysts indicated that the offensive appeared to have "greatly reduced" the Iran's naval capacity to sustain conventional attacks using its largest vessels. Nevertheless, it was emphasised that Tehran still has the ability to launch asymmetric warfare at sea through the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, small submarines and its so-called "shadow fleet" of oil ships.

The total scope of the damage caused to Iranian military infrastructure is still uncertain, with attacks reportedly ongoing. Pictures also indicates extensive destruction to the command center of the Iran's Revolutionary Guards in the city of Tehran.

A significant number of non-military structures also seem to have been struck in the capital and throughout Iran since the fighting started. Casualty figures from inside Iran state that a high number of non-combatants may have been killed in the strikes.

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