The Fairey Aviation Stooge was a command guided surface-to-air missile (SAM) development project carried out in the United Kingdom starting in World War II.

Development dates to a British Army request from 1944, but the work was taken over by the Royal Navy as a potential counter to the Kamikaze threat.

During World War II a number of efforts were started to develop surface-to-air missiles as it was generally considered that flak was of little use against bombers of ever-increasing performance.

[4] According to a common account of its development, possibly apocryphal,[2] Fairey was asked to carry out some basic research on these plans by a Royal Navy request, but instead presented a revised design of some depth.

[7] After launch the missile levelled off and a simple gyroscope-controlled autopilot, located in the forwards portion of the fuselage,[8] kept the Stooge flying in a straight line.

[10] Radlett, northwest of London, was the site of a major Handley Page factory and host of early meetings of what would become the Farnborough Airshow.

Although the programme failed to yield an operational weapons system, experience gained from the testing of Stooge assisted in the development of the Fairey Fireflash air-to-air missile.