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Multiple US and Israeli airstrikes has allegedly eliminated or harmed no fewer than 11 Iran's navy ships starting Saturday, new aerial photos demonstrate, with rocket sites and nuclear sites also coming under fire.

Photographs of the southerly Konarak military port and the Bandar Abbas port facility, which overlooks the Strait of Hormuz and contains the headquarters of the Iranian navy, reveal smoke billowing from multiple warships on Monday and Tuesday.

Maritime Assets Sustained Significant Damage

Among the vessels destroyed was the Makran, Iran's most sizable ship which had been used as a unmanned aerial vehicle platform. Orbital photos indicated dark plumes pouring from the vessel which had been moored at the Bandar Abbas naval base.

Analytical reports suggest that no fewer than a quintet of warships at the port were "damaged or eliminated". Pictures of the southern end of the port show plumes ascending from the Makran, while another pair of vessels are visibly harmed, with a single one visibly ablaze.

Over at the Konarak base, photos reveal numerous damaged ships, with expert review pointing to impacts on six vessels. Images taken on the start of the week also show that a number of structures at the base have been destroyed.

"For decades the Tehran government has harassed global maritime traffic," an American commander stated. "Now, there is not one Iranian ship underway in the Persian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz or Sea of Oman, and we will continue."

Some ships allegedly destroyed may have been hidden in satellite images by haze or plumes, or hit in open waters, and have yet to be fully confirmed. Additional information suggested that one Iranian ship was sinking near Sri Lanka's territorial waters, prompting a search and rescue mission.

Rocket Installations and Nuclear Locations Hit

Eliminating Iranian missile bases and the hindering of enrichment activities were listed as other aims of the air campaign. Satellite images also depicted strikes on the southerly Khorgu base and northwestern Tabriz missile bases, and at the Konarak air air base, where rocket warehouses and fortifications were targeted.

At the Choqa Balk-e unmanned aircraft site west of Kermanshah, widespread damage was seen to storage buildings, underground facilities and UAV launching apparatus.

Impact was also noted at a surveillance station at the Zahedan airbase military airport in eastern Iran, near the frontier with Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Significantly, the latest wave of strikes have reportedly hit installations at the Natanz complex – widely believed to be at the core of the country's atomic program. An international watchdog said that the affected structures were used for access to the facility's below-ground nuclear plant and that "no release of radioactive material" was anticipated.

Wider Consequences and Analysis

Defense experts suggested that the offensive appeared to have "significantly degraded" the Iran's naval capacity to sustain traditional warfare using its most significant vessels. However, it was stressed that Tehran retains the capacity to launch asymmetric warfare 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 has yet to be fully assessed, with hostilities said to be ongoing. Photos 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 appear to have been struck in the capital and across Iran after the conflict escalated. Casualty figures from ground sources state that many hundreds of civilians may have been fatally injured in the attacks.

Amid continuing hostilities, monitoring of space-based data will carry on to document the changing military landscape.