The blade is deep red with gold running over it: columns of Chinese characters along the spine and the fuller, a gold band framing the serrated section, and a gold crossguard with a round medallion where the grip begins. The M9 Bayonet has been the combat knife of the US Army since 1986; it clips onto a rifle, and together with its scabbard it works as a wire cutter.

The view model holds 2,818 polygons against the stock knife’s 1,040, on 40 bones, under fourteen textures. Three are the stock hand maps of the game; ten more split the knife into pieces, the two tallest at 200×989 and 204×1001; and a 64×64 chrome map adds the mirrored sheen GoldSrc fakes on metal. The idle runs 360 frames and the draw 30. What other players see was rebuilt at 1,512 polygons where the stock third-person knife has 112, and the nine knife sounds ship with the archive. There is no dropped-knife model, so on the ground it stays standard.