In late 85 early 86 the apaches were just being fielded to operational units.
One of the small problems that had gotten by all the testing regimes had to do with the cannon.
When firing the cannon in long bursts the circuit breaker for the night vision system would pop.
So there you are at night, a nice little hover hole, surrounded by trees and other bad things. You fire the cannon and after a short bit of time everything gets really dark.
Really really dark
Yikes !