T-17 Taserblade

The T-17 Taserblade is a close combat electroshock weapon developed and produced as a multipurpose combat tool. Taserblades are designed to allow the user flexibility of choice between lethal and non-lethal attacks in melee combat. In its non-lethal use, the flat side of the blade conducts an electrical charge, useful in pain compliance techniques. For lethal use, the taserblade features a self-sharpening edge.
As the designation suggests, the T-17 was developed and marketed in North America in 2017. Being essentially an ordinary sharpened length of metal with an electrical current running through, the T-17 was neither complicated nor especially popular in a land replete with privately-owned firearms, and struggled to find a market until 2019 when Great Lakes Manufacturing began designing the GLM TF01 combat automaton. The T-17 was selected as a standard integrated backup armament and redesigned by GLM for compatibility with the TF01 frame. 
The redesigned T-17 as part of the TF01 bares similarity to the KM100 fighting knife, only much larger. Laser-cut from stainless steel, the swords are kept stored in the Raptor's forearms and deploy from the wrist. Diamond nodes in the forearm housings ensure that the blades deploy with as sharp an edge as the day they were installed. 
Some have voiced doubt towards the electrified blade's effectiveness as a nonlethal weapon, and that the nonlethal feature is simply used to excuse the Raptor's standard equipment including, of all things, a sword. The GIQ-20A1 and GIQ-20A2 both carry T-17s in the left arm. The GIQ-20A3 has no other weapons aside from its main heavy weapon, while the GIQ-20A4 carries a sword in both the right and left arms. The weapons are not found used anywhere else in the AmC military.
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