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A wave of joint attacks has allegedly sunk or crippled at least eleven Iran's navy ships starting the weekend, new satellite images demonstrate, with missile bases and nuclear sites also coming under fire.

Pictures of the southern Konarak naval base and the Bandar Abbas port installation, which is located on the strategic Hormuz Strait and houses the headquarters of the Iran's naval force, show plumes of smoke rising from multiple vessels on the start of the week.

Maritime Assets Sustained Significant Losses

Among the ships sunk was the IRINS Makran, the country's biggest warship which had been used as a unmanned aerial vehicle platform. Orbital photos displayed dark plumes pouring from the ship which had been moored at the Bandar Abbas naval base.

Analytical assessments state that no fewer than five ships at the port were "damaged or eliminated". Pictures of the southern end of the port reveal smoke rising from the IRINS Makran, while two other ships appear to be impacted, with one seen burning.

Over at the Konarak base, images display multiple damaged ships, with expert review identifying strikes against six ships. Pictures from the start of the week also show that a number of structures at the base have been destroyed.

"For many years the Tehran government has disrupted global maritime traffic," the head of US Central Command stated. "Now, there is not one vessel from Iran at sea in the Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz or Gulf of Oman, and we will continue."

Some ships allegedly destroyed may have been obscured in satellite images by weather conditions or battle damage, or targeted offshore, and have not been independently verified. Separate reports stated that an Iranian vessel was sinking near Sri Lankan territorial waters, resulting in a rescue operation.

Missile Bases and Nuclear Facilities Attacked

Eliminating Iranian missile bases and the hindering of enrichment activities were stated as other goals of the air campaign. Satellite images also showed damage at the southern Khorgu and northwestern Tabriz missile facilities, and at the Konarak air air base, where weapons bunkers and fortifications were hit.

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

Damage was also observed at a radar site at the Zahedan airbase airbase in eastern parts of the country, close to the border with Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Perhaps most notably, the latest wave of strikes have apparently targeted sites at the Natanz complex – long said to be at the core of Iran's enrichment efforts. An international watchdog stated that the damaged buildings were used for access to the site's underground enrichment facility and that "no nuclear fallout" was expected.

Broader Impact and Analysis

Defense experts indicated that the strikes appeared to have "significantly degraded" the Iranian navy's capacity to sustain conventional attacks using its most significant vessels. However, it was noted that Tehran maintains the ability to launch irregular strikes at sea through the use of drones, small submarines and its so-called "ghost fleet" of oil ships.

The full extent of the damage caused to Iran's defense facilities remains unclear, with strikes reportedly ongoing. Pictures also indicates widespread destruction to the headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the city of Tehran.

A large number of public facilities also seem to have been damaged in the capital and throughout Iran after the conflict started. Reports of deaths from local officials suggest that many hundreds of civilians may have been killed in the attacks.

With the conflict ongoing, monitoring of satellite imagery will continue to assess the changing military landscape.