Gold engraving of interlaced scrollwork covers a darkened blade, and the same gold picks out the guard and the pommel. 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 25,308 polygons against the stock knife’s 1,040, on 38 bones and five textures. Four of them are 512×512: the knife, the arm, the glove and the fingers. The fifth is a 64×64 chrome map, the trick GoldSrc uses to put a mirrored sheen on metal. The idle runs 251 frames with an inspect in it. The archive ships the view model alone, so in other players’ hands and on the ground the knife stays standard.