Satellite Imagery Depict Iran's Naval Forces and Atomic Sites Damaged by US-Israeli Strikes.

Multiple joint airstrikes has allegedly destroyed or damaged at least eleven Iran's navy ships starting Saturday, recently obtained orbital imagery demonstrate, with launch facilities and atomic facilities also being targeted.

Photographs of the southerly Konarak naval naval base and the Bandar Abbas installation, which overlooks the strategic Hormuz Strait and houses the main command of the Iranian navy, show black smoke pouring from a number of ships on recent days.

Naval Forces Incurred Substantial Damage

Included in the vessels destroyed was the IRINS Makran, the country's largest naval vessel which had been used as a unmanned aerial vehicle platform. Orbital photos indicated dark plumes pouring from the ship which had been stationed at the Bandar Abbas naval base.

Intelligence reports state that no fewer than a quintet of warships at Bandar Abbas were "hit or sunk". Pictures of the southern end of the harbor depict smoke emanating from the Makran, while two other vessels seem to be impacted, with one visibly ablaze.

At the Konarak base, images show several stricken ships, with expert review identifying impacts on a half-dozen warships. Pictures from Monday also demonstrate that multiple facilities at the installation have been destroyed.

"For a long time the Iranian regime has disrupted commercial vessels," a senior US military official stated. "At present, there is no Iranian vessel underway in the Persian Gulf, Hormuz Strait or Gulf of Oman, and we will not stop."

Some vessels reportedly destroyed may have been hidden in satellite images by haze or plumes, or struck at sea, and have not been independently verified. Separate reports stated that one Iranian ship was going down near Sri Lanka's territorial waters, prompting a search and rescue mission.

Missile Bases and Nuclear Facilities Hit

The destruction of Iranian missile bases and the prevention of atomic bomb programs were listed as other goals of the air campaign. Aerial imagery also revealed impacts against the southern Khorgu base and northwestern Tabriz missile facilities, and at the Konarak air base, where missile storage facilities and bunkers were targeted.

Over at the Choqa Balk-e drone drone base to the west of Kermanshah, widespread destruction was observed to sheds, bunkers and UAV launching apparatus.

Impact was also observed at a surveillance station at the Zahedan airbase military airport in eastern parts of the country, close to the frontier with neighboring nations.

Perhaps most notably, the new round of strikes have apparently hit facilities at the Natanz complex – long said to be at the center of Iran's atomic program. An international watchdog commented that the affected structures were used for access to the site's underground nuclear plant and that "no nuclear fallout" was anticipated.

Wider Fallout and Analysis

Military analysts indicated that the attacks appeared to have "largely neutralized" the Iran's naval capacity to sustain conventional attacks using its most significant warships. But, it was noted that Iran still has the ability to launch irregular strikes at sea through the use of drones, small submarines and its so-called "shadow fleet" of oil ships.

The total scale of the damage caused to Iranian military facilities is still uncertain, with strikes reportedly continuing. Pictures also shows widespread damage 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 struck in the capital city and throughout Iran after the hostilities started. Toll estimates from inside Iran state that hundreds of non-combatants may have been killed in the strikes.

As the situation develops, analysis of space-based data will continue to document the evolving battlefield picture.