🔗 Share this article Orbital Pictures Depict Iran's Navy and Nuclear Sites Targeted by US-Israeli Airstrikes. A series of American and Israeli airstrikes has reportedly sunk or crippled at least 11 Iranian naval vessels since Saturday, freshly analyzed orbital imagery show, with rocket sites and enrichment plants also being targeted. Pictures of the southern Konarak military port and the Bandar Abbas port facility, which is located on the strategic Hormuz Strait and contains the headquarters of the Iran's naval force, depict black smoke pouring from multiple ships on recent days. Naval Fleet Sustained Substantial Losses Included in the ships sunk was the Makran, the country's most sizable ship which had been used as a unmanned aerial vehicle platform. Orbital photos indicated black smoke emanating from the ship which had been stationed at the Bandar Abbas naval base. Analytical reports indicate that at least a quintet of warships at Bandar Abbas were "damaged or eliminated". Pictures of the southern part of the port reveal smoke rising from the IRINS Makran, while another pair of ships seem to be damaged, with one of them clearly on fire. At the Konarak base, images show several damaged ships, with expert review identifying damage to six ships. Images from Monday also show that several structures at the installation have been leveled. "For many years the Tehran government has harassed international shipping," an American commander stated. "At present, there is not a single Iranian ship operational in the Persian Gulf, Hormuz Strait or Sea of Oman, and we will continue." A number of vessels reportedly destroyed may have been hidden in aerial photos by weather conditions or battle damage, or struck at sea, and have yet to be fully confirmed. Separate reports stated that a ship from Iran was sinking near Sri Lanka's territorial waters, leading to a rescue operation. Rocket Sites and Nuclear Locations Hit Eliminating Iranian missile bases and the prevention of enrichment activities were stated as additional objectives of the military strikes. Aerial imagery also showed damage at the southerly Khorgu base and north-western Tabriz missile missile bases, and at the Konarak base, where missile storage facilities and bunkers were hit. Over at the Choqa Balk-e drone UAV facility to the west of Kermanshah, significant damage was seen to storage buildings, underground facilities and unmanned aircraft systems. Impact was also observed at a radar installation at the Zahedan airbase military airport in eastern parts of the country, near the border with neighboring nations. Significantly, the most recent series of strikes have reportedly focused on facilities at the Natanz complex – long said to be at the core of Iran's nuclear programme. An international watchdog said that the damaged structures were used for entry to the facility's underground nuclear plant and that "no release of radioactive material" was expected. Broader Fallout and Assessment Observers indicated that the attacks appeared to have "greatly reduced" the Iranian navy's capacity to conduct standard operations using its most significant warships. Nevertheless, it was noted that Tehran maintains the option to launch unconventional attacks at sea through the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, mini-submarines and its so-called "ghost fleet" of oil ships. The total scope of the destruction caused to Iranian military facilities remains unclear, with attacks said to be continuing. Pictures also shows considerable damage to the command center of the Iran's Revolutionary Guards in the city of Tehran. Numerous of civilian buildings also appear to have been struck in the capital and across the country after the hostilities began. Casualty figures from inside Iran indicate that a high number of civilians may have been lost their lives in the strikes. Amid continuing hostilities, monitoring of satellite imagery will carry on to document the unfolding military landscape.