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Multiple American and Israeli attacks has reportedly sunk or crippled no fewer than 11 warships belonging to Iran starting the weekend, new orbital imagery show, with launch facilities and enrichment plants also sustaining hits.

Images of the southern Konarak naval military port and the Bandar Abbas port facility, which is located on the strategic Hormuz Strait and is home to the main command of the Iran's naval force, show plumes of smoke rising from multiple vessels on recent days.

Maritime Assets Incurred Significant Losses

Included in the vessels destroyed was the IRINS Makran, the country's biggest warship which had been used as a unmanned aerial vehicle platform. Satellite images indicated dark plumes emanating from the vessel which had been moored at the Bandar Abbas naval base.

Intelligence evaluations suggest that no fewer than five ships at the port were "hit or sunk". Imagery of the southern end of the port depict plumes ascending from the Makran, while another pair of vessels are visibly impacted, with one clearly on fire.

Over at Konarak, photos display numerous harmed ships, with analysis identifying impacts on six ships. Photos taken on the start of the week also indicate that several structures at the base have been destroyed.

"For many years the Iranian regime has harassed global maritime traffic," an American commander declared. "At present, there is not one Iranian ship at sea in the Arabian Gulf, Hormuz Strait or Sea of Oman, and we will continue."

A number of vessels reportedly destroyed may have been concealed in aerial photos by haze or plumes, or struck at sea, and have not been independently verified. Other accounts stated that one Iranian ship was sinking off the coast of Sri Lanka's territorial waters, leading to a search and rescue mission.

Rocket Sites and Nuclear Facilities Targeted

Eliminating Iranian missile bases and the hindering of enrichment activities were declared as other aims of the offensive. Aerial imagery also showed damage at the southerly Khorgu and northwestern Tabriz missile facilities, and at the Konarak air base, where missile storage facilities and fortifications were targeted.

At the Choqa Balk-e UAV facility west of Kermanshah, widespread destruction was observed to storage buildings, underground facilities and UAV launching apparatus.

Destruction was also noted at a radar site at the Zahedan airbase in eastern parts of the country, near the border with Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Perhaps most notably, the most recent series of strikes have reportedly focused on installations at the Natanz complex – widely believed to be at the core of Iran's atomic program. An international watchdog stated that the affected buildings were used for entry to the site's below-ground nuclear plant and that "no release of radioactive material" was anticipated.

Wider Fallout and Assessment

Military analysts indicated that the offensive appeared to have "largely neutralized" the Iranian navy's capacity to conduct conventional attacks using its largest vessels. But, it was emphasised that Tehran still has the capacity to launch asymmetric warfare at sea through the use of drones, midget subs and its so-called "ghost fleet" of oil ships.

The full scale of the destruction caused to Iranian military infrastructure has yet to be fully assessed, with strikes reportedly ongoing. Pictures also shows widespread damage to the headquarters of the Iran's Revolutionary Guards in the city of Tehran.

A large number of civilian buildings also seem to have been damaged in the capital and across Iran after the hostilities escalated. Reports of deaths from local officials suggest that hundreds of civilians may have been fatally injured in the strikes.

With the conflict ongoing, analysis of space-based data will persist to track the changing battlefield picture.