 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Inodokusvika hafu yevaApache vose veU.S. vakaendeswa kuSaudi Arabia pashure pokupinda kweIraq muKuwait muna 1990. Mukati meOperation Desert Stormmusi wa 17 Ndira 1991, masere AH-64As inotungamirirwa ne mana MH-53 Pave Low IIIs yakaparadza chikamu cheiyo radar network yeIraq mune yekutanga kurwisa kwebasa, ichibvumira ndege yekurwisa kunzvenga kuonekwa. Apache imwe neimwe yaitakura mutoro usina kuenzana wemaroketi eHydra 70, Hellfires, uye tangi rimwe chete remafuta. Munguva yehondo yemaawa zana yepasi, huwandu hwe277 AH-64 dzakatora chikamu, dzichiparadza matangi 278, vatakuri vehondo vakawanda uye dzimwe mota dzeIraq. Imwe AH-64 yakarasika muhondo, yakadonha mushure mekurohwa nebhomba rakaputika rakaputika RPG, vashandi vakapona. Kunyange zvazvo yaibudirira muhondo, AH-64 yakaratidza zvinetso zvakakomba zvokugadzira zvinhu. Zvakawanwa zvakashumwa muna 1990 zvakataura kuti zvikamu zvokutarisira zvakanga zvisingagoni kuwirirana nebasa guru risingatarisirwi raApache... Kupa yokuzvigadzirisa zvikamu zvehondo, U.S. Army unofficially grounded vamwe vose AH-64s munyika yose; Apaches vari theater kubhururuka chete cheshanu yakarongwa ndege-maawa. Zvinetso zvakadaro zvaiva pachena Hondo yeGulf isati yaitika. 