The aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford never slid down a ramp: Newport News flooded Dry Dock 12 with more than 100 million gallons of water in phases until the ship rose off its keel blocks where it was built.
USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) was built from November 2009 in Newport News Shipbuilding’s Dry Dock 12, 2,173 feet long and 250 feet wide, on wood-capped concrete keel blocks. In October 2013 sponsor Susan Ford Bales pushed a dozen buttons and more than 100 million gallons of water flowed in, in phases with tests, the first 4 feet only up to the keel blocks. The ship floated where it was built, was set back on its blocks for its christening, floated again about a week later, and six tugboats moved it about one mile south on the James River to Pier 3 for 28 more months of outfitting and testing. Sources: Huntington Ingalls Industries, WRA, Janes, Navy News Service. Video is a simplified AI illustration, not real footage.
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AI slop.
They seem to have taken the idea of building the ship in a dry dock and then flooding the dock to float it from the construction and 'launch' of the SS Great Britain (July 1843).