Winding turquoise lines cover the flat of the blade like the galleries a beetle leaves under bark, with the clipped point and the top edge left bare steel and a row of saw teeth in between; the crossguard carries the same turquoise. The M9 was adopted by the US Army in 1986: it mounts on a rifle, and paired with its scabbard it works as a wire cutter.

The view model holds 2,144 polygons against the stock knife’s 1,040, on 40 bones, under thirteen textures: ten pieces of the knife, among them 200×989 and 204×1001 strips for the two faces of the blade and a 68×800 map for the collar of the grip, plus the stock hand maps at their game sizes. There is no chrome map. The idle runs 360 frames, the draw 30 and every attack 36. What other players see was rebuilt at 1,512 polygons where the stock third-person knife has 112, and nine knife sounds ship with the archive. There is no dropped-knife model, so on the ground it stays standard.