Peter Gajdoš (9 April 1959) is a Slovak retired three star general and politician who served as the minister of defence from 2016 to 2020.

Afterwards, he held several high level positions with the General Staff of the Slovak Armed Forces.

[2] Gajdoš became the minister of defence of the Fico's Third Cabinet on 23 March 2016 as a personal nominee of Andrej Danko, the chainman of the Slovak National Party (SNS).

Danko knew Gajdoš from the 1990s, when the later served as the personal secretary of the minister Sitek, who was a member of SNS.

[5] In 2018, signed a contract with a representative of Lockheed Martin for the purchase of F-16 Fighting Falcon jets as a replacement of Slovakia's aging fleet of Mig 29 fighters.