The blade looks like cooling lava: deep red at the point, orange across the middle, yellow near the guard, and a web of black cracks laid over the whole of it. Saw teeth run along the spine, a hole is cut near the tip, and the guard and grip are a dark speckled teal. The M9 Bayonet is the fighting knife the US Army adopted in 1986, built to clip onto a rifle and to cut wire together with its scabbard.

The view model holds 2,144 polygons against the stock knife’s 1,040, on 40 bones and thirteen textures. The blade alone is unwrapped onto two tall maps of 200×989 and 204×1001, a 68×800 strip covers the band on the handle, and the hands keep the stock 252×123 glove, 124×126 finger and 252×255 skin maps. There is no 64×64 chrome map, the file GoldSrc reads to put a mirrored sheen on metal, so the glow along the blade is painted. The idle runs 360 frames with an inspect in it, and the draw takes 30. The third-person knife was rebuilt too, at 1,512 polygons against the stock 112. There is no dropped-knife model in the archive, so on the ground the knife stays standard.