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Yes, it is. There are many uses for this, but let's not ignore limitations either. Oh we do know plenty of materials that are transparent (enough) to usual radar spectra. What do you think radar domes on aircraft are made of? But the problem is, the kinds of materials that would make decent...

Nope, that isn't how things work, as BT armor is an abomination in the eyes of real world physics. Besides, armoring warships has a bigger problem than armor material. Namely, you can't armor antennas, sensor masts, radar dishes etc. Meanwhile, modern warships have a metric shit ton of this sort...

Battletech is not using endosteel for armor.

You're technically right. However, such discussions usually involve technologies likely to be fielded within years, a few decades at most. By the time this will be feasible, hard to say if there will still be such a thing as US carriers at all. For example, why would the suborbital bombers of...

You have missed the ways in which FELs can be used against surface vessels, and they don't have much of a defense measure against that. Submarines can at least hide, and as you mentioned, there is nothing stopping them from getting lasers too.

How many armies are fielding nuke pumped laser ICBMs? Zero. Its a sci fi weapon, intended mostly for space use there. It would be an engineering nightmare to build a practical one as things stand. By the time we have laser technology light, tough and precise enough, you will have to worry about...

This goes for any surface warship. Just gradual improvement of a threat as old as carriers themselves. Job for the battlegroup. Propaganda meme. Depending on model and source, they have a CEP from 20 to 400 meters. Which gives them some chance of hitting a carrier sized target, optimistically...