Sea Wolf as a vertical-launch system from the outset

How would an original vertical-launch Sea Wolf have affected Royal Navy development and exports?

Vertical launch could improve exports and avoid launcher-traverse failures in the Falklands, with a possible reduction in ship losses.

Vertical launch could provide more ready missiles and avoid dependence on a launcher turning to bear. Sea Wolf's relatively small size is used to suggest that manual replenishment might also have been possible. Failures involving launcher movement during the Falklands campaign are the operational concern. Better availability could have saved at least one ship in this counterfactual assessment, although no specific loss is identified.