Suppress Numbering of Subfigures
Because you don't need labels and numbers of subsubfigures, and I guess you don't need captions as well, you could simply use minipage
environments or \parbox
for those figures instead of nesting subfigures.
Further, if you use the subfigure
package, which is outdated, you might consider to use the newer subfig
or subcaption
package instead.
A possible solution with the already mentioned »subcaption« package (shipped with caption).
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[includeheadfoot,margin=3cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[font=small,labelfont=bf,tableposition=top]{caption}
\usepackage[font=footnotesize]{subcaption}
\usepackage{blindtext}
%\DeclareCaptionSubType*[arabic]{figure}
%\captionsetup[subfigure]{labelformat=simple,labelsep=colon}
\title{Two subfigures without a caption}
\author{Myx}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\blindtext
\begin{figure}[!ht]
\centering
\begin{subfigure}[b]{0.45\textwidth}
\centering
\rule{6.4cm}{3.6cm}
\end{subfigure}
\hfill
\begin{subfigure}[b]{0.45\textwidth}
\centering
\rule{6.4cm}{3.6cm}
\end{subfigure}
\caption{Dummy figures}\label{fig:dummy}
\end{figure}
\blindtext
\end{document}