Type 43 would find few export buyers

Would anyone else buy Type 43 destroyers if the class had been built?

Probably not, although building Type 43 could delay the later Type 45 programme.

A completed Type 43 destroyer would probably have attracted few foreign buyers. Its larger consequence would be domestic: putting the class into service could delay the design and construction path that eventually produced Type 45. An interim class can reshape a navy's own programme sequence even when it has little export appeal.