From the exodus of the machine thread:
I manage to reproduce the issue I mentioned with THREE neinzul hybrids in a galaxy with only barely 3 digits total AI ships. Even better I got a save game and a video recording. The blue AI's champion did this a bit but not as bad.
The neinzul hybrids was briefly out of range for maybe one and half second. Not a serious issue but I see it happens fairly often I thought it was worth a look at.
Champion shield is the easiest way to reproduce it. However I have seen it happens with normal stationary shield as well.
I will update with a link to a youtube video shortly.
Edit: Link to Video:
http://youtu.be/ANH2BTPVn4o