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Multiple US and Israeli attacks has according to analysis destroyed or damaged at least 11 Iran's navy ships starting the weekend, new aerial photos show, with missile bases and enrichment plants also sustaining hits.

Photographs of the southern Konarak naval naval base and the Bandar Abbas port facility, which sits on the strategic Hormuz Strait and contains the main command of the Iranian navy, depict plumes of smoke rising from multiple vessels on recent days.

Maritime Forces Sustained Substantial Losses

Included in the ships sunk was the IRINS Makran, the country's most sizable ship which had functioned as a drone carrier. Satellite images indicated black smoke rising from the ship which had been moored at the Bandar Abbas base.

Analytical reports state that at least five ships at Bandar Abbas were "struck or destroyed". Photos of the southern part of the harbor reveal plumes ascending from the IRINS Makran, while two other ships seem to be impacted, with one visibly ablaze.

At the Konarak base, images show numerous damaged vessels, with analysis pointing to impacts on six vessels. Images from Monday also demonstrate that multiple buildings at the installation have been leveled.

"For a long time the Iran's leadership has harassed commercial vessels," a senior US military official stated. "At present, there is not one vessel from Iran underway in the Arabian Gulf, Hormuz Strait or Sea of Oman, and we will not stop."

Some ships reportedly destroyed may have been concealed in aerial photos by cloud or smoke, or targeted offshore, and have not been independently verified. Separate reports indicated that an Iranian vessel was sinking off the coast of Sri Lankan territorial waters, resulting in a rescue operation.

Rocket Bases and Atomic Facilities Attacked

Neutralizing Iranian missile bases and the stopping atomic bomb programs were declared as additional aims of the air campaign. Aerial imagery also showed impacts against the southerly Khorgu base and northwestern Tabriz missile missile bases, and at the Konarak air air base, where rocket warehouses and bunkers were struck.

Over at the Choqa Balk-e drone unmanned aircraft site west of Kermanshah, widespread damage was identified to warehouses, underground facilities and unmanned aircraft systems.

Impact was also seen at a radar installation at the Zahedan airbase military airport in eastern parts of the country, close to the frontier with neighboring nations.

Significantly, the latest wave of attacks have reportedly hit facilities at the Natanz complex – long said to be at the heart of the country's nuclear programme. The UN's atomic energy body commented 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 Fallout and Analysis

Observers suggested that the strikes appeared to have "significantly degraded" the Iran's naval capacity to conduct conventional attacks using its biggest warships. But, it was emphasised that Iran maintains the option to launch asymmetric warfare at sea through the use of drones, mini-submarines and its so-called "ghost fleet" of oil ships.

The full scale of the damage caused to Iran's defense infrastructure remains unclear, with strikes said to be continuing. Photos also indicates extensive destruction to the headquarters of the Iran's Revolutionary Guards in the capital Tehran.

Numerous of civilian buildings also seem to have been damaged in the capital city and across the country since the conflict started. Reports of deaths from inside Iran suggest that hundreds of non-combatants may have been lost their lives in the bombardment.

As the situation develops, monitoring of aerial photographs will carry on to document the evolving battlefield picture.