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Multiple American and Israeli strikes has allegedly eliminated or harmed a minimum of eleven warships belonging to Iran starting Saturday, new orbital imagery reveal, with launch facilities and atomic facilities also being targeted.

Images of the southern Konarak military port and the Bandar Abbas facility, which sits on the strategic Hormuz Strait and houses the main command of the Iran's naval force, depict plumes of smoke rising from several ships on Monday and Tuesday.

Maritime Fleet Sustained Significant Losses

Among the targets eliminated was the IRINS Makran, the country's most sizable ship which had functioned as a unmanned aerial vehicle platform. Satellite images displayed thick smoke pouring from the ship which had been docked at the Bandar Abbas base.

Analytical reports state that at least a quintet of warships at the port were "hit or sunk". Pictures of the southern part of the port depict plumes ascending from the IRINS Makran, while additional ships are visibly harmed, with one of them visibly ablaze.

Over at Konarak, images display multiple damaged vessels, with intelligence reports pointing to strikes against a half-dozen warships. Photos from the start of the week also demonstrate that a number of facilities at the installation have been demolished.

"For decades the Iran's leadership has disrupted commercial vessels," a senior US military official said. "Today, there is no Iranian vessel at sea in the Arabian Gulf, Hormuz Strait or Gulf of Oman, and we will not stop."

A number of vessels allegedly destroyed may have been hidden in satellite images by cloud or smoke, or targeted offshore, and have not been independently verified. Additional information indicated that one Iranian ship was sinking near Sri Lankan territorial waters, resulting in a search and rescue mission.

Rocket Sites and Atomic Facilities Hit

Eliminating Iranian missile bases and the hindering of enrichment activities were declared as further objectives of the air campaign. Satellite images also revealed damage at the southerly Khorgu and northwestern Tabriz facilities, and at the Konarak base, where missile storage facilities and bunkers were hit.

Over at the Choqa Balk-e drone UAV facility to the west of Kermanshah, extensive damage was observed to warehouses, bunkers and UAV launching apparatus.

Damage was also observed at a radar site at the Zahedan airbase military airport in eastern parts of the country, near the frontier with Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Of particular note, the most recent series of attacks have apparently hit installations at the Natanz complex – widely believed to be at the center of Iran's atomic program. A global monitoring agency said that the affected buildings were used for access to the facility's below-ground nuclear plant and that "no release of radioactive material" was anticipated.

Wider Consequences and Assessment

Military analysts indicated that the strikes appeared to have "greatly reduced" the Iran's naval ability to carry out standard operations using its biggest vessels. However, it was stressed that Iran retains the capacity to launch unconventional attacks at sea through the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, midget subs and its so-called "ghost fleet" of tankers.

The full scale of the destruction caused to Iran's defense infrastructure is still uncertain, with attacks said to be persisting. Imagery also reveals widespread destruction to the main offices of the the IRGC in the capital Tehran.

A large number of public facilities also seem to have been damaged in the capital and across the country since the conflict began. Reports of deaths from ground sources state that hundreds of non-combatants may have been killed in the strikes.

With the conflict ongoing, monitoring of aerial photographs will persist to assess the evolving battlefield picture.