The blade is painted like a patch of deep space: red and crimson clouds over the forward half, dark green and teal nearer the guard, all of it laid on near black. Saw teeth run along the spine and an oval hole is cut through the steel. The M9 Bayonet is the fighting knife the US Army adopted in 1986: it mounts on a rifle, and together with its scabbard it works as a wire cutter.

The view model holds 26,519 polygons against the stock knife’s 1,040, on 38 bones, and three 512×512 textures cover the knife, the glove and the sleeve. There is no chrome map, so the light on the blade is painted in rather than reflected. The idle runs 417 frames, the stab 64 and the missed stab 56. The archive ships the view model alone, so in other players’ hands and on the ground the knife stays standard.