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Multiple American and Israeli airstrikes has according to analysis destroyed or damaged a minimum of eleven Iranian naval vessels since the weekend, freshly analyzed aerial photos show, with missile bases and nuclear sites also sustaining hits.

Photographs of the southerly Konarak naval military port and the Bandar Abbas port facility, which overlooks the Strait of Hormuz and is home to the main command of the Iranian navy, depict plumes of smoke rising from multiple ships on Monday and Tuesday.

Naval Forces Incurred Major Damage

Among the ships sunk was the Makran, the country's most sizable ship which had served as a unmanned aerial vehicle platform. Aerial imagery showed black smoke emanating from the ship which had been docked at the Bandar Abbas naval base.

Intelligence assessments suggest that no fewer than five ships at Bandar Abbas were "damaged or eliminated". Pictures of the south end of the port reveal smoke rising from the IRINS Makran, while additional ships appear to be impacted, with one of them clearly on fire.

Over at Konarak, photos show numerous harmed vessels, with analysis pointing to impacts on a half-dozen warships. Images taken on Monday also indicate that a number of buildings at the installation have been demolished.

"For a long time the Iranian regime has disrupted commercial vessels," an American commander said. "Today, there is no Iranian vessel underway in the Persian Gulf, Hormuz Strait or Gulf of Oman, and we will not stop."

Some ships reportedly sunk may have been concealed in satellite images by cloud or smoke, or hit in open waters, and have not been independently verified. Additional information stated that an Iranian vessel was foundering near Sri Lanka's territorial waters, resulting in a search and rescue mission.

Rocket Installations and Atomic Facilities Attacked

Neutralizing Tehran's launch facilities and the hindering of nuclear weapons development were declared as other objectives of the military strikes. Aerial imagery also revealed damage at the southern Khorgu and northwestern Tabriz missile missile bases, and at the Konarak air base, where rocket warehouses and fortifications were hit.

Over at the Choqa Balk-e drone drone base west of Kermanshah, significant destruction was seen to warehouses, bunkers and UAV launching apparatus.

Damage was also noted at a surveillance station at the Zahedan airbase military airport in eastern Iran, near the border with neighboring nations.

Significantly, the new round of strikes have reportedly focused on facilities at the Natanz complex – long said to be at the center of Iran's enrichment efforts. A global monitoring agency said that the damaged buildings were used for access to the site's below-ground enrichment facility and that "no nuclear fallout" was anticipated.

Wider Fallout and Assessment

Military analysts indicated that the attacks appeared to have "largely neutralized" the Iran's naval ability to conduct standard operations using its biggest vessels. Nevertheless, it was stressed that Iran still has the capacity to launch irregular strikes at sea through the use of drones, small submarines and its so-called "shadow fleet" of tankers.

The total extent of the damage caused to Iran's defense facilities has yet to be fully assessed, with strikes said to be persisting. Photos also indicates widespread damage to the command center of the Iran's Revolutionary Guards in the capital Tehran.

A significant number of civilian buildings also are reported to have been hit in the capital city and throughout the country after the hostilities escalated. Toll estimates from local officials state that many hundreds of non-combatants may have been fatally injured in the strikes.

Amid continuing hostilities, monitoring of satellite imagery will continue to document the changing scope of damage.