Did the Swordfish achieve genuine export success?

Did the Fairey Swordfish have export success?

It served with several foreign Allied forces, though wartime supply circumstances make that different from ordinary peacetime export success.

An audience member asks whether the Swordfish enjoyed export success. Several other nations did receive the aircraft, though that success needs qualification. Much of the foreign use occurred among wartime Allies drawing on available British production rather than customers choosing freely in a peacetime market. The answer distinguishes international operation from competitive commercial export performance.