A different Tiger-class gun fit changes the later helicopter conversion

How would the Tiger class change if redesigned with six 6-inch guns and twelve 3-inch guns?

They would be more capable gun cruisers, but the added weapons and value would change the space, weight, timing, and form of any later helicopter conversion.

The proposed arrangement gives the class a heavier and more numerous dual-purpose battery than the historical design. That increases combat value as a gun cruiser while consuming weight and internal volume that later conversions would need. A more useful original ship might also be retained longer before the Navy accepted a radical helicopter-cruiser rebuild. The counterfactual therefore changes both the immediate armament and the economic logic of the class's later life.