It was apparently capable of sustaining a direct hit with minimal damage.
The ship sustained a direct hit from a 500-pound bomb and sank within four minutes.
All at once, however, it became a moot point: The ship sustained a terrible direct hit.
Two people were injured when their car sustained a direct hit.
The complex was designed and built to sustain a direct hit from a 20-kiloton nuclear bomb, equivalent to the one dropped on Nagasaki.
Dead Zones are areas that sustained a direct nuclear hit during the war.
Kocatepe sustained a fatal hit and sank with the loss of 54 crew members.
The Harrier had sustained a serious hit to its tail section.
The Hughes had sustained a hit to its rear end, which was now in flames.
They lived near San Diego, which sustained a direct nuclear hit during the war.
