The T-6 and T-45 are built in the US. The T-45 development from the British Hawk was all done INCONUS by Boeing and US employees. Same with the T-6 development. The reason they use current platforms is because it's exponentially cheaper than developing a new one, which again is a better product for the tax payer.
As for the M9, that thing is a piece of FOD.
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Spur
Uhhh, all of the previously mentioned aircraft are produced in the US by US workers. Not that I like the bus, but it would have created more US jobs since Airbus was going to use the KC-45 program as a bridge to producing commercial A330s in the US. But who knows, maybe they will anyway...
Sorry, but everything I've read said they would've flown green A330's to Mobile, where they would have done the tanker conversion. It would have been a European product.
As far as I'm concerned, US Taxpayer dollars are paying for an American made product, which we need now.