https://freerepublic.com/tag/gopsuckups4ukraine/ en-us Fri, 5 Jun 2026 19:04:59 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4382494/posts Russian military vehicles are being painted with vivid stripes to baffle AI systems of Ukrainian-launched drones, experts say. Now the "cloaking" tactic has apparently launched a high-stakes game of hide and seek on the highways of Russian-held territory in Ukraine. Todd E. Humphreys, an aerospace and AI expert at the University of Texas at Austin, agrees the paint tactic may be more effective than many realize. "Dazzle paint pushes the vehicles 'out of distribution' -- they no longer look, to the AI classifier, like the images it was trained on," he told RFE/RL. But any specific paint job would have... Radio Free Europe https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4382494/posts#comment Fri, 5 Jun 2026 19:04:59 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4382408/posts The Republican-led House on Thursday passed a sweeping security package providing new military aid to Ukraine and imposing sanctions on Russia, delivering a sharp rebuke to the Trump administration, who opposed the measure. Eighteen Republicans crossed party lines to support the Democrat-authored legislation in a vote of 226-195. California Rep. Kevin Kiley, an independent who caucuses with Republicans, also supported the legislation. Meanwhile, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., was the lone Democratic lawmaker to vote against the bill. House GOP leadership and the vast majority of Republicans opposed the legislation aimed at bolstering Ukraine's defenses amid a surge in Russian missile... Fox News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4382408/posts#comment Fri, 5 Jun 2026 01:27:03 GMT