The manoeuvres with Oman are scheduled to take place off India's western coast between April 24-26, the Asian Age newspaper said.

The exercises with the United States are on May 6-8 off the western city of Bombay, which is also the headquarters of the western naval command, it said.

India is also scheduled to hold its first joint naval exercises with Russia next month, officials said.

Despite years of robust defence ties -- more than 70 percent of the Indian army, air force and navy equipment is of Russian origin -- the two Cold War allies have not previously held naval exercises.

Last week, four Russian navy ships left their Black Sea base at Sevastopol and three other Russian Pacific fleet vessels left Vladivostok to take part in the manoeuvres.

"The exercises are ... part of the dialogue and good relations between the Russian and Indian navies," the commander of Russia's Pacific fleet, Viktor Fyodorov, said last week.

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