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Multiple joint airstrikes has allegedly eliminated or harmed no fewer than eleven warships belonging to Iran since the weekend, freshly analyzed aerial photos show, with rocket sites and atomic facilities also sustaining hits.

Pictures of the southern Konarak military port and the Bandar Abbas port installation, which overlooks the strategic Hormuz Strait and contains the main command of the Iran's naval force, show plumes of smoke rising from multiple ships on Monday and Tuesday.

Maritime Fleet Sustained Substantial Losses

Included in the ships sunk was the IRINS Makran, the country's most sizable ship which had served as a drone carrier. Orbital photos displayed black smoke pouring from the ship which had been stationed at the Bandar Abbas naval base.

Intelligence reports indicate that no fewer than a quintet of warships at the port were "hit or sunk". Pictures of the southern part of the port depict smoke rising from the IRINS Makran, while two other vessels are visibly harmed, with one clearly on fire.

Over at the Konarak base, photos reveal numerous harmed ships, with analysis identifying damage to a half-dozen warships. Photos from Monday also demonstrate that several structures at the base have been destroyed.

"For a long time the Iran's leadership has harassed international shipping," the head of US Central Command stated. "Now, there is not one Iranian vessel underway in the Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz or Sea of Oman, and we will continue."

Some vessels reportedly sunk may have been obscured in satellite images by haze or plumes, or hit in open waters, and have not been independently verified. Separate reports suggested that one Iranian ship was going down off the coast of Sri Lankan waters, prompting a rescue operation.

Rocket Installations and Atomic Locations Hit

Neutralizing Iran's rocket sites and the stopping atomic bomb programs were declared as further goals of the air campaign. Aerial imagery also revealed strikes on the southerly Khorgu and northwestern Tabriz missile missile bases, and at the Konarak base, where weapons bunkers and bunkers were struck.

Over at the Choqa Balk-e drone unmanned aircraft site to the west of the city of Kermanshah, widespread destruction was identified to sheds, bunkers and unmanned aircraft systems.

Damage was also observed at a radar site at the Zahedan airbase in eastern Iran, close to the frontier with neighboring nations.

Significantly, the new round of strikes have apparently hit installations at the Natanz complex – long said to be at the center of Iran's atomic program. The UN's atomic energy body said that the affected structures were used for entry to the facility's below-ground enrichment facility and that "no nuclear fallout" was expected.

Broader Fallout and Analysis

Military analysts suggested that the offensive appeared to have "largely neutralized" the Iranian navy's capacity to carry out conventional attacks using its biggest warships. Nevertheless, it was noted that Iran maintains the ability to launch irregular strikes at sea through the use of drones, midget subs and its so-called "clandestine network" of oil ships.

The overall extent of the destruction caused to Iran's defense infrastructure is still uncertain, with strikes reportedly ongoing. Imagery also reveals widespread destruction to the main offices of the Iran's Revolutionary Guards in the city of Tehran.

A large number of civilian buildings also seem to have been hit in the capital and across Iran since the fighting began. Casualty figures from local officials state that a high number of non-combatants may have been fatally injured in the attacks.

As the situation develops, review of aerial photographs will continue to track the changing scope of damage.