The blade is dark navy with a turquoise pattern etched over its lower half, curling flames rather than the tiger stripes the name suggests, and a small turquoise emblem sits on the guard plate. The scabbard is the same navy. The M9 Bayonet is a fighting knife adopted by the US Army in 1986; 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: the three stock hand maps of the game and ten separate pieces of the knife, among them 200×989 and 204×1001 strips for the faces of the blade and a 68×800 map for the grip. There is no chrome map, so the glow along the etching is painted rather than reflected. The idle runs 360 frames and the draw 30. The third-person model was rebuilt to 1,512 polygons where the stock one has 112, and nine knife sounds ride along. Nothing covers the dropped knife, so on the ground it stays standard.