Satellite Photographs Depict Iran's Navy and Atomic Sites Struck by Joint US and Israeli Strikes.

A series of joint strikes has according to analysis destroyed or damaged at least eleven Iran's navy ships starting the weekend, new aerial photos show, with rocket sites and nuclear sites also sustaining hits.

Images of the southerly Konarak naval base and the Bandar Abbas port installation, which is located on the Strait of Hormuz and houses the headquarters of the Iranian navy, depict smoke billowing from a number of warships on the start of the week.

Naval Forces Incurred Significant Damage

Included in the ships sunk was the Makran, the country's biggest warship which had been used as a unmanned aerial vehicle platform. Aerial imagery indicated dark plumes emanating from the ship which had been moored at the Bandar Abbas naval base.

Intelligence reports indicate that at least a quintet of warships at the port were "damaged or eliminated". Imagery of the south end of the port show smoke rising from the IRINS Makran, while another pair of ships appear to be impacted, with one of them visibly ablaze.

At Konarak, photos show numerous damaged ships, with intelligence reports identifying damage to six vessels. Photos from the start of the week also demonstrate that several facilities at the base have been destroyed.

"For many years the Iranian regime has threatened commercial vessels," the head of US Central Command said. "Today, there is not one Iranian ship underway in the Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz or Sea of Oman, and we will continue."

Some ships reportedly destroyed may have been hidden in satellite images by weather conditions or battle damage, or hit in open waters, and have yet to be fully confirmed. Other accounts indicated that a ship from Iran was sinking off the coast of Sri Lanka's territorial waters, leading to a rescue operation.

Rocket Installations and Atomic Locations Attacked

Eliminating Iranian missile bases and the stopping enrichment activities were declared as further goals of the military strikes. Aerial imagery also revealed impacts against the southerly Khorgu base and northwestern 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 to the west of Kermanshah, extensive damage was identified to storage buildings, bunkers and drone launch equipment.

Damage was also seen at a radar site at the Zahedan military airport in eastern Iran, close to the border with neighboring nations.

Of particular note, the most recent series of attacks have apparently targeted installations at the Natanz complex – long said to be at the center of Iran's nuclear programme. The UN's atomic energy body said that the affected buildings were used for entry to the facility's underground enrichment facility and that "no release of radioactive material" was anticipated.

Wider Fallout and Analysis

Military analysts indicated that the strikes appeared to have "greatly reduced" the Iran's naval capability to sustain traditional warfare using its largest warships. However, it was emphasised that Tehran retains the option to launch asymmetric warfare at sea through the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, mini-submarines and its so-called "clandestine network" of oil ships.

The overall scope of the destruction caused to Iranian military infrastructure has yet to be fully assessed, with hostilities said to be ongoing. Photos also shows widespread destruction to the command center of the Iran's Revolutionary Guards in the city of Tehran.

A significant number of civilian buildings also are reported to have been hit in the capital and throughout the country after the conflict began. Casualty figures from inside Iran suggest that many hundreds of non-combatants may have been fatally injured in the attacks.

With the conflict ongoing, analysis of aerial photographs will persist to document the changing military landscape.