While the 1945 names finally selected for the "Tiger" class, "Lion", "Tiger", "Hawke" and "Blake", suggest strong Admiralty support for the class, many of the leading RN naval architects favored scrapping them all in 1947. The Director of Naval Construction (DNC) informed the Acting Chief of Naval Staff that the "Tiger"s were nearly structurally complete, making substantial modernization or adding real aircraft direction capability impossible and the later war priority of heavy 6-inch turrets and close-range AA weaponry to counter the Japanese air threat meant they were the least suitable Royal Navy cruiser class for modernization. Unlike the Colony class, the "Minotaur" class could only be rearmed with three medium main turrets due to weight and internal-volume restrictions, whereas all the other cruiser types could be refitted with four modern medium turrets on the centreline. A decision to approve rearming the "Tiger"s with fully automatic Mk 26s was made in late 1954. Of the suspended "Minotaur"s, "Bellerophon" was completed as "Tiger" becoming the lead ship of the new "Tiger" class, "Blake" was completed under her own name, and "Defence" was completed as "Lion".